Being in love means being at the mercy of someone's childhood.

England has become a squalid, uncomfortable, ugly place ... an intolerant, racist, homophobic, narrow-minded, authoritarian, rat-hole run by vicious, suburban-minded, materialistic philistines.

I am determined to live without illusions. I want to look at reality straight. Without hiding.

If you get depressed, you can be stuck for months; if you have an analyst, you at least have a chance of getting out of it faster.

But you're beautiful, and the beautiful should be given whatever they want." "Hey, what about the ugly ones?" "The ugly ones." She poked her tongue out. "It's their fault if their ugly. They're to be blamed, not pitied.

And silence, like darkness, can be kind; it, too, is a language.

Children, who have yet to learn our ways, are notoriously promiscuous in their affection. They’ll sit on anyone’s knee.