Some cities are women and must be loved; others are men and can only be admired or bargained with

There was a house we all had in common and it was called the past, even though we'd lived in different rooms.

Irish was a man of parts even if some of them didn't work too well.

How far does a pretence of feeling, maintained with absolute conviction, become authentic?

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

Hollywood... was the place where the United States perpetrated itself as a universal dream and put the dream into mass production.

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