Now that I had actually made love, more astonishingly now that I had been made love to, the fantasies were subtly undermined.
Alan HollinghurstTo apologize for what you most wanted to do, to concede that it was obnoxious, boring, 'vulgar and unsafe' --- that was the worst thing.
Alan HollinghurstWhat the problem was was this colossal redundancy, the squandering of brilliant technique on cheap material.
Alan Hollinghurst