The saggy armchair of clichés.
That night two lovers whispering under the lead canopy of the church were killed by their own passion. Their effusion of words, unable to escape through the Saturnian discipline of lead, so filled the...
That is what literature offers-- a language powerful enough to say how it is. It isn't a hiding place. It is a finding place.
Sometimes you have to live in precarious and temporary places. Unsuitable places. Wrong places. Sometimes the safe place won't help you.
Slightest accidents open up new worlds.
Six books… my mother didn’t want books falling into my hands. It never occurred to her that I fell into the books – that I put myself inside them for safe keeping.
She was night-time and words were the dream.
Passion is sweeter split strand by strand. Divided and re-divided likemercury then gathered up only at the last moment.
Only humans can know what it means to strip a human being of being human.
My mother was in charge of language. My father had never really learned to read - he could manage slowly, with his fingers on the line, but he had left school at twelve and gone to work at the Liverpo...
Love is vivid. I never wanted the pale version.. Love is full strenght. I never wanted the diluted version. I never shied away from love's hugeness but I had no idea that love could be as reliable as...
Know thyself,’ said Socrates.Know thyself,’ said Sappho, ‘and make sure that the Church never finds out.
I walked into you.The white room is a hospital.
I have a theory that every time you make an important choice, the part of you left behind continues the other life you could have had. Some people's emanations are very strong, some people create them...
I am civilised. My feelings are not.
He's only a dog. Yes but he has found me out.
Fall for me, as an apple falls, as rain falls, because you must. Use gravity to anchor your desire.
Don't mix your heart with your liver.
Anyone could see the ticker tape. It was more frightening than the that never stopped calculating the national debt. This one said '27 SHOPPING DAYS TO CHRISTMAS'.It might as well have said '27 DAYS T...
I don't read reviews because by then it's too late - whatever anyone says, the book won't change. It is written.