One day, Annabel saw the sun and moon in the sky at the same time. The sight filled her with a terror which entirely consumed her and did not leave her until the night closed in catastrophe for she had no instinct for self-preservation if she was confronted by ambiguities.
He is the intermediary between us, his audience, the living, and they, the dolls, the undead, who cannot live at all and yet who mimic the living in every detail since, though they cannot speak or weep, still they project those signals of signification we instantly recognize as language.
How pleased I was to see I strick the Beast to the heart.
I was the only man alive who knew time had begun again.
It would mean that the castle is not yet generating enough eroto-energy.
I toppled off my pyrotechnic tiger and, as I plunge downwards, endlessly as Lucifer, I ask myself: “What is the most miraculous event in the world?” And I answer myself: “I am going to fall into my own arms. They stretch out to me from the bottom of the pit.
But needs must when the devil drives.
The enchantment of that bright, sad, pretty place enveloped her and she found that, against all her expectations, she was happy there.
She was feeling supernatural tonight. She wanted to EAT diamonds.
Nostalgia, the vice of the aged. We watch so many old movies our memories come in monochrome.
What a joy it is to dance and sing!
Reading a book is like re-writing it for yourself. You bring to a novel, anything you read, all your experience of the world. You bring your history and you read it in your own terms.
Moonlight, white satin, roses. A bride.
What would the daughters of the rich do with themselves if the poor ceased to exist?
Cities have sexes: London is a man, Paris a woman, and New York a well-adjusted transsexual.
A book is simply the container of an idea-like a bottle; what is inside the book is what matters.
Language is power, life and the instrument of culture, the instrument of domination and liberation.
I think it’s one of the scars in our culture that we have too high an opinion of ourselves. We align ourselves with the angels instead of the higher primates.
A day without an argument is like an egg without salt.
It shone on everyone, whether they had a contract or not. The most democratic thing I’d ever seen, that California sunshine.