I would like to spare the time and effort of hack reviewers and, generally, persons who move their lips when reading.

There is an old American saying 'He who lives in a glass house should not try to kill two birds with one stone.

To play safe, I prefer to accept only one type of power: the power of art over trash, the triumph of magic over the brute.

Thus, in pornographic novels, action has to be limited to the copulation of clichés.

It is certainly not then-not in dreams- but when one is wide awake, at moments of robust joy and achievement, on the highest terrace of consciousness, that mortality has a chance to peer beyond its own limits, from the mast, from the past and its castle tower. And although nothing much can be seen through the mist, there is somehow the blissful feeling that one is looking in the right direction.

The evolution of sense is, in a sense, the evolution of nonsense.

I think she always nursed a small mad hope.