I grew up very strongly with this sense of time being circular: that it constantly returned upon itself.

The past is there, but life is circular. I have a strong sense of the circularity of time.

The idea of the past is as useless as the idea of the future. Both could be invoked by anybody about anything. There is never any more beauty than there is now. There is no more joy or sorrow or wonder than there is now, nor perfection, nor any more evil nor any more good than there is now.

I grew up being a bit of a tomboy, a big-time tomboy.

We're a migrant nation made up of people who've been torn out of other worlds, and you'd think we would have some compassion.

I have no sense of time, and I'm a dreamer.