Our fingernails match our toenails, match our lipstick match our rouge...The habit of applying warpaint outlasts the battle.

I am entirely alone. I and my shadow fill the universe.

The lovely Hazard girls', they used to call them. Huh. Lovely is as lovely does; if they looked like what they behave like, they'd frighten little children.

Home is where the heart is and hence a movable feast.

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

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

Strangers used to gather together at the cinema and sit together in the dark, like Ancient Greeks participating in the mysteries, dreaming the same dream in unison.