Because," she said, "that is what men would call it. They invented Satan, didn't they? Satanic is merely the name they give to the behavior of those who would disrupt the orderly way in which men want to live.

There may be writing groups where people meet but it's occasional. You really do it all at your own computer or your own typewriter by yourself.

For several long moments we remained locked together, and I think I covered her hair with small sacred kisses, her perfume crucifying me with memories.

Oh, but when love is reached through suffering, it has a power it can never gain through innocence.

Oh, if the moon only had a secret, if the moon only held a truth. But the moon was just the moon.

My body is no schoolboy.

Aren't there gradations of evil? Is evil a great perilous gulf into which one falls with the first sin, plummeting to the depth?