Out of the frying pan into the fire! What is marriage but prostitution to one man instead of many? No different!

Though I still turn up my coat-collar in a lonely way and am always looking at myself in mirrors, they’re only habits and give no clue at all to my character, whatever that is. The most difficult performance in the world is acting naturally isn’t it? Everything else is artful.

Language is power, life and the instrument of culture, the instrument of domination and liberation.

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

He was a lovely man in many ways. But he kept on insisting on forgiving me when there was nothing to forgive.

Love is desire sustained by unfulfilment.

The wolf is carnivore incarnate and he's as cunning as he is ferocious; once he's had a taste of flesh then nothing else will do.