High calls low and low calls high. I tell you, if you were in such dire straits as I was, you too would elevate your thoughts. The lower you are, the higher your mind will want to soar.

How long does it take for a broken spirit to kill a body that has food, water and shelter?

It is pointless to say that this or that night was the worst of my life. I have so many bad nights to choose from that I've made none the champion.

That's what fiction is about, isn't it, the selective transforming of reality? The twisting of it to bring out its essence?

If you take two steps towards God,' he used to tell me, 'God runs to you!

Animals in the wild lead lives of compulsion and necessity within an unforgiving social hierarchy in an environment where the supply of fear is high and the supply of food is low and where territory must constantly be defended and parasites forever endured.

Most people take who they are, naturally, as a given, and they're interested in the sexual other, but not in being the sexual other. Most men are interested in women - whether sexually or not is not the question - but they don't necessarily want to be a woman.