Now that I had actually made love, more astonishingly now that I had been made love to, the fantasies were subtly undermined.

He wanted pure compliments, just as he wanted unconditional love.

I was rather a goody-goody as a child... It was only later on I discovered that you could be naughty and get away with it.

There was the noise itself, which he thought of vaguely as the noise of classical music, sameish and rhetorical, full of feelings people surely never had

The worse they are the more they see beauty in each other.

The great wisdom for writers, perhaps for everybody, is to come to understand to be at one with their own tempo.

I like things to reverberate, to be suggestive.