I'm bored," she said. "Learn how to tap-dance," he suggested, without turning around.

It's one thing to want money, but if you find yourself choking on a coin as you wake, the money is slightly less desirable.

Growing up, I took so many cues from books. They taught me most of what I knew about what people did, about how to behave. They were my teachers and my advisers.

Delirium: 'What's the name of the word for the precise moment when you realize that you've actually forgotten how it felt to make love to somebody you really liked a long time ago?' Dream: 'There isn't one.' Delirium: 'Oh. I thought maybe there was.'

I'd love to write some porn, but I don't know if I have the right engines. When I was a young man and I was tempted to write porn, imaginary parents would appear over my shoulder and read what I was writing; just about the point that I managed to banish the imaginary parents, real children would lean over my shoulder and read what I was writing.

I think if you decide that any book is about Only One Thing you're probably wrong. Even if that thing is in there.

I would not wish to marry someone who had already been married. It would be,' she opined, 'like having someone else break in one's own pony.