Why bother? I was right all along: the second you make yourself vulnerable to someone, they start drawing blood.

In the Netherlands I read the first chapter of Exquisite Corpse to an audience that laughed in all the places I thought were funny - an experience I've never had in America!

With the first kiss his mouth will taste of wormwood.

Why bother? I was right all along: the second you make yourself vulnerable to someone, they start drawing blood.

I believe in whatever gets you throught the night. [...] Night is the hardest time to be alive. For me, anyway. It lasts so long, and four A.M.knows all my secrets.

My mother is an office manager, my father a professor of economics and financial planner.

All at once it hit him: this was power too, just as surely as smashing your fist into someone’s face, just as surely as putting a hammer through someone’s skull. The power to make another person crazy with pleasure instead of fear and pain, to have every cell in another person’s body at your thrall.