In modern consumer society, the attack on mother-child eroticism took its total form; breastfeeding was proscribed and the breasts reserved for the husband's fetishistic delectation. At the same time, babies were segregated, put into cold beds alone and not picked up if they cried.

I think that testosterone is a rare poison.

Every time a man unburdens his heart to a stranger he reaffirms the love that unites humanity.

Reading was my first solitary vice (and led to all others). I read while I ate, I read in the loo, I read in the bath. When I was supposed to be sleeping, I was reading.

Loneliness is never more cruel than when it is felt in close propinquity with someone who has ceased to communicate.

Gender reassignment is an exorcism of the mother

Act quickly, think slowly.