The first time that she spread her legs for him it had been like opening her jaws for the dentist.

If the novelist isn't surprised by where his book ends up, he or she probably hasn't written anything worth remembering.

Some praise me, some blame me. I go the other way. Sometimes those things that attract the most attention to us are the things which afford us the greatest privacy

To achieve the impossible; it is precisely the unthinkable that must be thought.

Brilliantly, ecstatically, irrepressibly. This is the way to burn

The universe does not have laws. It has habits. And habits can be broken.

Maybe most people were fundamentally contradictory. The real people at any rate.