Ideally, if anything [was] any good, it would be indescribable.

I've never had any intentions about anything. That's why I am where I am today, which is neither here nor there, in a literal sense.

All the things you can talk about in anyone's work are the things that are least important.

I realize that homosexuality is a serious problem for anyone who is - but then, of course, heterosexuality is a serious problem for anyone who is, too. And being a man is a serious problem and being a woman is, too. Lots of things are problems.

I should like a parsley sandwich. To the best of my knowledge they are not in season.

...my least favorite actress of all time, Helena Bonham Carter. I find her lack of a neck very off-putting and especially her acting.

Having got into bed and turned out the light, I quietly burst into tears because I am not a good person. As they came and went for some minutes, I was concerned with the words following 'because' in the previous sentence, rewriting them over and over in my head until they seemed to be as close to the truth as it was possible for me to make them.