You can persuade a man to believe almost anything provided he is clever enough, but it is much more difficult to persuade someone less clever.

The truth is, we value your company, for want of any other. We have been left so much to our own devices—after a while one welcomes the uncertainty of being left to other people's.

Any revival in which I am involved is liable to change.

I love love. I love having a lover and being one. The insularity of passion. I love it. I love the way it blurs the distinction between everyone who isn't one's lover.

Hotel rooms inhabit a separate moral universe.

It takes a lot of effort to be vibrant.

I am not my body. My body is nothing without me.