Comedy is tragedy that happens to other people.

This lack of imagination gives his heroism to the hero.

He was prepared to die for it, as one of Baudelaire's dandies might have been prepared to kill himself in order to preserve himself in the condition of a work of art, for he wanted to make this experience a masterpiece of experience which absolutely transcended the everyday. And this would annihilate the effects of the cruel drug, boredom, to which he was addicted although, perhaps, the element of boredom which is implicit in an affair so isolated from the real world was its principle appeal for him.

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.

She herself is a haunted house. She does not possess herself; her ancestors sometimes come and peer out of the windows of her eyes and that is very frightening. from "The Lady of the Haunted House

He is, I think, already pondering a magisterial project: that of buggering the English language, the ultimate revenge of the colonialised.

Stars on our door, stars in our eyes, stars exploding in the bits of our brains where the common sense should have been