Aphorisms are bad for novels. They stick in the reader's teeth.
Two people making love, she once said, are like one drowned person resuscitating the other.
For years they have been using the role of 'sex object' as a cover while they spied out the land.
We are all tourists in history, and irony is what we win in wars.
Paranoids are the only ones who notice things anymore.
People ... have no idea what a hard job it is for two writers to be friends. Sooner or later you have to talk about each other's work.