It shone on everyone, whether they had a contract or not. The most democratic thing I'd ever seen, that California sunshine.

She stood lost in eternity wearing a crazy dress, watching the immense sky.

I had the brief notion that his heart, pressed flat as a flower, crimson and thin as tissue paper, lay in this file. It was a very thin one.

If Miss means respectably unmarried, and Mrs. respectably married, then Ms. means nudge, nudge, wink, wink.

Reading a book is like re-writing it for yourself. You bring to a novel, anything you read, all your experience of the world. You bring your history and you read it in your own terms.

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

His main principles were indeed as follows: everything it is possible to imagine can also exist.