The only sin is the sin of being born.
My characters have nothing. I'm working with impotence, ignorance... that whole zone of being that has always been set aside by artists as something unusable - something by definition incompatible with art.
It's a rare thing not to have been bonny-- once.
I have my faults, but changing my tune is not one of them.
Yes, light, there is no other word for it.
How do you manage it, she said, at your age? I told her I'd been saving up for her all my life.