Being naked approaches being revolutionary; going barefoot is mere populism.

Inspiration arrives as a packet of material to be delivered.

The difference between a childhood and a boyhood must be this: our childhood is what we alone have had; our boyhood is what any boy in our environment would have had.

Those running tights the young women wear now, so they look like spacewomen, raspberry red and electric green so tight they show every muscle right into the crack between the buttocks, what is the point of them? Display. Young animals need to display.

I think it's the sentence-to-sentence pleasures, the little surprises of a surprising style of an acute style, and also the way things happen one after the other, that makes a book interesting to read page to page

Our tears fatten upon our memories of joy.

The worst thing in the world is a bitter woman. That's one thing about your mother, she's never been bitter.