The state is never so efficient as when it wants money.

Literature is all, or mostly, about sex.

If you write fiction you are, in a sense, corrupted. There's a tremendous corruptibility for the fiction writer because you're dealing mainly with sex and violence. These remain the basic themes, they're the basic themes of Shakespeare whether you like it or not.

This must be a real horrorshow film if you're so keen on my viddying it.

Death comes along like a gas bill one can't pay.

With both agents and publishers hungry for bestsellers, literature will have to end up as a cottage industry.

And to all others in this story profound shooms of lip music brrrrrr. And they can kiss my sharries.