I despise people who can't control themselves.

I haven't anything against whores, except this: some of them may have an honest tongue but they all have dishonest hearts.

She was a triumph over ugliness, so often more beguiling than real beauty, if only because it contains paradox. In this case, as opposed to the scrupulous method of good taste and scientific grooming, the trick had been worked by exaggerating defects; she'd made them ornamental by admitting them boldly.

The good thing about masturbation is that you don't have to get dressed up for it.

Still, when all is said, somewhere one must belong: even the soaring falcon returns to its master's wrist.

I got this idea of doing a really serious big work-it would be precisely like a novel, with a single difference: Every word of it would be true from beginning to end.

I suppose you think I'm very brazen. Or très fou. Or something.' Not at all.' She seemed disappointed. 'Yes, you do. Everybody does. I don't mind. It's useful.