Sleep is death without the responsibility.

Money...buys privacy, silence. The less money you have, the noisier it is; the thinner your walls, the closer your neighbors.... The first thing you notice when you step into the house or apartment of a rich person is how quiet it is.

Not writing is probably the most exhausting profession I've ever encountered.

I am alternately very gregarious - very sociable - and then very solitary.

Writing pornography is deadly, nothing duller. I mean a toll-taker has a more exciting life than a pornographer.

What starts love is your ability to stupefy and blind yourself to the point of being able to fall in love. What stops it is waking up.

Nothing succeeds like address.