I'm fat because I'm greedy, and if my mind is fat it's because I'm curious.

It is astonishing how articulate one can become when alone and raving at a radio. Arguments and counter arguments, rhetoric and bombast flow from one's lips like scurf from the hair of a bank manager.

The church has no power over our lives any more, which is something of a blessing for those who do not enjoy red-hot pokers or iron thumb-screws.

Literary studies were no more than a series of autopsies performed by heartless technicians. Worse than autopsies: biopsies. Vivisection. Even movies, which I love more than anything, more than life itself, they even do it with movies these days.

Because, let's face it, I do not get offered the parts that Brad Pitt has just turned down.

You don't sit down and write a wish list about the person you are going to fall violently in love with. It just doesn't work like that.

Things are always worse in the steady watches of the night.