In the mythic schema of all relations between men and women, man proposes, and woman is disposed of.
Among the monsters, I am well hidden; who looks for a leaf in a forest?
Strangers used to gather together at the cinema and sit together in the dark, like Ancient Greeks participating in the mysteries, dreaming the same dream in unison.
There are lots of things that you can brush under the carpet about yourself until you’re faced with somebody whose needs won’t be put off.
I drew the curtains to conceal the sight of my father’s farewell; my spite was sharp as broken glass.
Stars on our door, stars in our eyes, stars exploding in the bits of our brains where the common sense should have been.
Before he can become a wolf, the lycanthrope strips naked. If you spy a naked man among the pines, you must run as if the Devil were after you.
One beast and only one howls in the woods by night.
I desire therefore I exist.
I am entirely alone. I and my shadow fill the universe.
I see her as a series of marvellous shapes formed at random in the kaleidoscope of desire.
His main principles were indeed as follows: everything it is possible to imagine can also exist.
This lack of imagination gives his heroism to the hero.
The lovely Hazard girls’, they used to call them. Huh. Lovely is as lovely does; if they looked like what they behave like, they’d frighten little children.
She said to the Daisy girl with her big brown eyes: ‘I will not have it plain. No. Fancy. It must be fancy!’ She meant her future. A moon-daisy dropped to the floor, down from her hair, like a faintly derisive sign from heaven.
Losing their names, these things underwent a process of uncreation.
Anticipation is the greater part of pleasure.
He was a lovely man in many ways. But he kept on insisting on forgiving me when there was nothing to forgive.
Some cities are women and must be loved; others are men and can only be admired or bargained with.
Midnight, and the clock strikes. It is Christmas Day, the werewolves birthday, the door of the solstice still wide enough open to let them all slink through.