I've never had any desire to be good. I don't like goodness particularly.

Please remove your watch,' he said. 'In my domain time isn't a factor.

One would hope, as well that intimacy would leave more of a mark, that more of it would remain. But it doesn’t. You just end up thinking, who is this person?

These days everyone was insisting on their identity, coming out as a man, woman, gay, black, Jew - brandishing whichever features they could claim, as if without a tag they wouldn’t be human.

Like you, she will have been with other people, but I've got a feeling there's something between you.

If you want something badly enough, you make arrangements. If you don't want it badly enough, you make excuses.

I'm always writing. I'm an obsessive. It's not because I'm a disciplined person. It's because I'm crazy about it.