You and I are nothing but wild beasts wearing human skins.

What with one thing and another, I can't remember ever having been chirpier than at about this period in my career. Everything seemed to be going right. On three separate occasions horses on which I'd...

What is it like when you lose someone you love? Jane asked.You die, too. And you wait around for your body to catch up.

Threatened men live long.

They returned to the gallery and circled its rim, then went down a short hall. Scrap's tail twitched angrily when they reached Tristan's door: it was shut. Daine grabbed the knob. It stung her hand, m...

There is a thumping silence, and the light of the one lamp across the wet tiled floor seems conscious that it will illuminate this and many other atrocities, just as it will go on shining through days...

The prints shop manager, a balding man of about thirty years old, dressed in a plaid work shirt and faded jeans, looked very shocked when he saw the headline text. Sydney Tar Ponds, Is It As Dangerous...

She preferred the times when she could pretend that she was in a gravity well to the little reminders that she was the puppet of acceleration and inertia.

Opportunity may knock only once but temptation leans on the door bell

My little cup brims with tiddles.

Ma che importanza aveva! Non era felice, non lo era mai stata. Da dove veniva, dunque, quella insufficienza di vita, quella istantanea marcescenza delle cose a cui si appoggiava?… Ma se da qualche par...

Loki's green eyes flashed with anger and with admiration, for he loved a good trick as much as he hated being fooled.

Jace, she said. Why are you doing this to me?Because you’re lying to me. And you’re lying to yourself. Jace’s eyes were blazing, and even though his hands were stuffed into his pockets, she could see...

If you prefer, I can acquire a windowless creeper van, and we can huddle in it and eat greasy take out.

If ever a place had a karma of damnation, it's Rottnest. And all those slick galleries selling Aboriginal art were eroding away my will to live. It's as if Germans built a Jewish food hall over Buchen...

I don’t even know her. But you want to. She’s beautiful, but that’s the end of it. A lot of girls are beautiful, but Farah is beautiful in a different way, he said, getting that dreamy look when talki...

Having arrived at this point, he had found no direction in which to go save that of further withdrawal into a subjectivity which refused existence to any reality or law but its own. During these postw...

From love's absolutism to love's absolution? No: I don't believe in the cosy narratives of life some find necessary, just as I choke on comforting words like redemption and closure. Death is the only...

For a moment they all looked at Dermot incredulously, as if he'd just announced he was going to birth a kangaroo.

Do you know why I stopped being Delight, my brother? I do. There are things not in your book. There are paths outside this garden.