Jeanette Winterson Quotes

They say that life's a game, & then they take the board away.

I, Kusama, am the modern Alice in Wonderland.

God knows the times I have found myself in absurd situations.

Love is the ultimate outlaw. It just won't adhere to any rules. The most any of us can do is sign on as its accomplice.

Being wild can be wearing a silly hat. Being wild can be dancing weird. Being wild can be shooting people. What do I think being wild is? Nothing. Actually, the whole world is wild. Everything is wild.

Any game looks straight if everyone is being cheated at once.

The trouble with fiction," said John Rivers, "is that it makes too much sense. Reality never makes sense.

To play Trivial Pursuit with a life like mine could be said to be a form of homeopathy.

I feel like Alice falling into Wonderland. A line came to him: It would be so nice if something made sense for a change.

Oh, did you expect me to play fair?" Cupid laughed. "I am the god of love. I am never fair.

We are all patchwork, and so shapeless and diverse in composition that each bit, each moment, plays its own game.

This wasn't Weirdville, this was fricking Wonderland. Alice here was all grow up, but she was still chowing down on too much of that psychedelic mushroom.

I've cheated, or someone on my team has cheated, in almost every single game I've been in.

Life is a game played on us while we are playing other games.

If I had a world of my own, everything would be nonsense. Nothing would be what it is, because everything would be what it isn't. And contrariwise, what it is, it wouldn't be. And what it wouldn't be it would. You see?

Calvin: They say the world is a stage. But obviously the play is unrehearsed and everybody is ad-libbing his lines. Hobbes: Maybe that’s why it’s hard to tell if we’re living in a tragedy or a farce. Calvin: We need more special effects and dance numbers.

Call me sick. Call me deranged. I'm gonna be your worst nightmare. I'm gonna be your hero whether you like it or not!

When every card in the deck is stacked against you, the only way to win a hand is to break the rules. You beg, borrow, and steal, as the old adage goes, and if you happen to get caught in the act, at least you´ve gone down fighting the good fight.

I think I do find humor in disorder, and reality is disorder.

There's something totally crazy about this.

Real love is always chaotic. You lose control; you lose perspective. You lose the ability to protect yourself. The greater the love, the greater the chaos. It’s a given and that’s the secret.

There are sixteen cans of coffee here; together they hold a total of thirteen and a half pounds of coffee. Doesn't that seem like cheating?

Recruiting can be a little deceiving at times. You never know what you've got until you really, really play it out.

The anarch knows the rules. He has studied them as a historian and goes along with them as a contemporary. Wherever possible, he plays his own game within their framework; this makes the fewest waves.

Nature seems to exult in abounding radicality, extremism, anarchy. If we were to judge nature by its common sense or likelihood, we wouldn't believe the world existed. In nature, improbabilities are the one stock in trade. The whole creation is one lunatic fringe. ... No claims of any and all revelations could be so far-fetched as a single giraffe.