But mostly they were lies I told; it wasn't my fault, I couldn't remember, because it was as though I'd been to one of those supernatural castles visited by characters in legends: once away, you do not remember, all that is left is the ghostly echo of haunting wonder.

I've never had an affair with somebody who wasn't at the same time a very good friend of mine, if you see what I mean.

[T]he army of wrongness rampant in the world might as well march over me.

That's the question: is truth an illusion, or is illusion truth, or are they essentially the same? Myself, I don't care what anybody says about me as long as it isn't true.

Jay Sebring cut my hair a couple of times.

Personally, I rather think that if you're not creative you've got a problem on your hands. If you are creative you've got a double problem.

She took off her dark glasses and squinted at me. It was as though her eyes were shattered prisms, the dots of blue and gray and green like broken bits of sparkle.