If the Barbarians are destroyed, who will we then be able to blame for the bad things?
The notion of a universality of human experience is a confidence trick and the notion of a universality of female experience is a clever confidence trick.
I haven’t changed much, over the years. I use less adjectives, now, and have a kinder heart, perhaps.
Anxiety is the beginning of conscience, which is the parent of the soul but is not compatible with innocence.
It’s every woman’s tragedy, that, after a certain age, she looks like a female impersonator. Mind you, we’ve known some lovely female impersonators, in our time.
Women’s sexy underwear is a minor but significant growth industry of late-twentieth-century Britain in the twilight of capitalism.
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.