Sex and writing live on playful cruelties.
Inevitably, almost everything we say is either quotation or paraphrase.
The ugly can achieve an absoluteness beyond the reach of beauty.
Some loves are like a vice that has ceased to give pleasure.
Amateurs believe their enthusiasm will suffice.
Arrogance rides triumphantly through the gates, barely glancing at the old woman about to cut the rope and spring shut the trap.