He methodically basted the dark skin of the Alsatian, which he had stuffed with garlic and herbs."One rule in life", he murmured to himself. "If you can smell garlic, everything is all right".

They thrived on the rapid turnover of acquaintances, the lack of involvement with others, and the total self-sufficiency of lives which, needing nothing, were never dissapointed.

In effect, the apartment block was a small vertical city, its two thousand inhabitants boxed up into the sky.j.g.

Even their insistence on educating their children, the last reflex of any exploited group before it sank into submission, marked the end of their resistance.

Togetherness is beating up an empty elevator.

this was an environment built, not for man, but for man's absence.

She had hoped. And hope broke more hearts than any man ever could.

We must leave this terrifying place to-morrow and go searching for sunshine.

Trust not yourself, but your defects to know, make use of every friend and every foe.

I've always loved animals and I always thought that they were, if not better, then the absolute equal of any two legged creature that God ever created.

Joy is the most Magnetic Force in the Universe!

You are a victim of the rules you live by.

I'm in a position where whatever I do, I can get my head handed to me. I'm in a position to fail because there is a whole group of people out there who want me to fail. It's a weird vibe.

I looked a hundred times and all I saw was dust. The sun broke through and flecks of gold filled the air.

It's possible to go on, no matter how impossible it seems, and that in time, the grief . . . lessens. It may not go away completely, but after a while it's not so overwhelming.

I think the difference between me and some of the other YBAs [Young British Artists] was that I was ambitious for the work, and not ambitious for myself.