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

In the mythic schema of all relations between men and women, man proposes, and woman is disposed of.

Not for Moorcock the painful, infrequent excretion of dry little novels like so many rabbit pellets; his is the grand, messy fluxitself, in all its heroic vulgarity, its unquenchable optimism, its enthusiasm for the inexhaustible variousness of things.

Your thin white face, chérie; he said, as if he saw it for the first time. Your thin white face, with its promise of debauchery only a connoisseur could detect.

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

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.

Anxiety is the beginning of conscience, which is the parent of the soul but is not compatible with innocence.