But needs must when the devil drives.
Is it not to the mercies of the eyes of others that we commit ourselves on our journey through the world?
She learns her lesson at once; to escape slavery, she must embrace tyranny.
People talk about mainstream fiction and sf as though they were two quite different kinds of writing, and fantasy as well, as though it was quite different. But I think this a false distinction, that...
A free woman in an unfree society will be a monster. Her freedom will be a condition of personal privilege that deprives those on which she exercises it of her own freedom. The most extreme kind of th...
jThe 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.
Watching a film was like being a voyeur, living vicariously.
She walked in technicolor.
Palyaço maskesinin altında yatan o yüz, uzun yıllar önce tanışıp sevilmiş, sonra da kaybedilmiş, şimdi de yeniden bulunmuş bir sevgilinin yüzü. Onunla daha önce hç karşılaşmamış olmama, bana tümüyle y...
I raised you up to fly to the heavens, not to brood over a clutch of eggs!
I can no longer tell the difference between memory and dream. They share the same quality of wishful thinking.
He is a carnival figure made of papier mâché and crêpe hair; and yet he has the Devil’s knack at cards.
She found it made things easier if she dramatised them. Or melodramatised them. It was easier, for example, to face the fact of Uncle Philip if she saw him as a character in a film, possibly played by...
Justine's virtue, in action, is the liberal lie in action, a good heart and an inadequate methodology.
Language is power, life and the instrument of culture, the instrument of domination and liberation.
Sade's manicheistic dualism sees the world as irredeemably evil; vice must always prosper, virtue always despair. There is no hope for us as we are now.[...]Sade's vision is utterly without transcende...
I was the only man alive who knew time had begun again.
I fall to the toilette of my hinder parts, my favourite stance when contemplating the ways of the world.
He has the special quality of virginity, most and least ambiguous of states: ignorance, yet at the same time, power in potentia, and, furthermore, unknowingness, which is not the same as ignorance.
Yet wild things have a far more rational fear of us than is ours of them...