Proposition one: time is a man, space is a woman.

It is far easier for a woman to lead a blameless life than it is for a man; all she has to do is to avoid sexual intercourse like the plague.

It shone on everyone, whether they had a contract or not. The most democratic thing I'd ever seen, that California sunshine.

Nothing is a matter of life and death except life and death.

His wedding gift, clasped round my throat. A choker of rubies, two inches wide, like an extraordinarily precious slit throat.

There are lots of things that you can brush under the carpet about yourself until you're faced with somebody whose needs won't be put off.

I should have liked to have had him beside me in a glass coffin, so that I could watch him all the time and he would not have been able to get away from me.