I cannot believe homosexuality is that much fun. Heterosexuality certainly is not.

Then he gave her a kiss on the forehead that felt like a baptism and she wept like a baby.

I often worry that my idea of personhood is nostalgic, irrational, inaccurate.

I don't keep any copies of my books in the house - they go to my mum's flat. I don't like them around.

Today, writing seems to me like an incredible luxury, almost a perversity, something which hardly exists in the world anymore, where you get to see the fruits of your actions in a daily way.

Tell the truth through whichever veil comes to hand - but tell it. Resign yourself to the lifelong sadness that comes from never ­being satisfied.

She represents love, beauty, purity, the ideal female and the moon...and she's the mystère of jealousy, vengeance and discord, AND, on the other hand, of love, perpetual help, goodwill, health, beauty and fortune.