“What was marriage but sex plus property.”

“Its frustration which makes creativity possible.”

“Theres a lot of degradation in sex, isnt there?When its done right.”

“My blackness is spreading, Alice. Ive been seeing and hearing things that cant be there or anywhere. At night, when Im not hallucinating mad women, I can feel depression starting to burn me around ...”

“Plato, along with the latest pope, recognised how dangerous it is to have an artist around making mischief, stirring things up with the spoon of truth and intoxicant of fantasy and magic. And so, f...”

“The writer, indeed every real artist, was the devil, rivalling God in creativity, trying even to surpass him. God was surely mans most fatal creation, the devils kitsch bitch. It was God, with his ...”

“Paris was all so... Parisian. I was captivated by the wonderful wrongness of it all - the unfamiliar fonts, the brand names in the supermarket, the dimensions of the bricks and paving stones. Child...”

“Oh, well, it might look like a patterned world, laid out in prim design, but to those living there it could never be so simple. They were as alive as she: that old peasant contriving to outwit the ...”

“I knew how severe I had been and how bad things had been. The one who is doing his work and getting satisfaction from it is not the one who poverty bothers.”