Adultery is a most conventional way to rise above the conventional.

Knowing you have something good to read before bed is among the most pleasurable of sensations.

And the rest is rust and stardust.

Do not be angry with the rain; it simply does not know how to fall upwards.

Mind you, sometimes the angels smoke, hiding it with their sleeves, and when the archangel comes, they throw the cigarettes away: that’s when you get shooting stars.

Curiosity is insubordination in its purest form.

Lolita, light of my life, fire of my loins. My sin, my soul. Lo-lee-ta: the tip of the tongue taking a trip of three steps down the palate to tap, at three, on the teeth. Lo. Lee. Ta.

The writer's job is to get the main character up a tree, and then once they are up there, throw rocks at them.

There are aphorisms that, like airplanes, stay up only while they are in motion.

I think it is all a matter of love: the more you love a memory, the stronger and stranger it is.

Loneliness as a situation can be corrected, but as a state of mind it is an incurable illness.

Age had drained the color from her eyes the way darkness drains the color from everything

Speaking of sleeping bags, has anything ever had a less creative name?

I live alone so I always just eat out. When I'm in another relationship, then maybe we'll start cooking together.

To be ones self and unafraid whether right or wrong is more admirable than the easy cowardice of surrender to conformity.

Nature gives all, without reservation, and loses nothing; man or woman, grasping all, loses everything.

Not hope, but Faith. I don't believe in hope. Hope is a beggar.

I'd love to have been born into a wealthy family. I might have turned out even more marvellous than I am now.

From 30 feet away she looked like a lot of class. From 10 feet away she looked like something made up to be seen from 30 feet away.

Sometimes the British press is maybe a little bit racist.

The only thing I oppose is persecuting of Eastern Orthodox priests and temples.