Nice" said Paul staring transfixed at Fran's delicate and extreme gaze, like that of a skeleton with eyeballs, or a person with their face peeled off.

On average, since the urge to kill myself isn't so strong that I actually kill myself, the world is worth living in.

Nobody wants to give up a weekend-long excuse to dress up and attempt to outshine one another.

The stars were withdrawn, small, giving no light, unlike other nights when they seemed to hang large from the sky ready to be reached for and taken into our hands.

When it comes to writing, clarity trumps all rules.

I was the freak who moved into the nice neighborhood.

It is strange how deeply colours seem to penetrate one, like scent.

I have written much less than most people who write; I have drunk much more than most people who drink.

God is the place of spirits, as spaces are the places of bodies.

Tobacco and religious organisations.

The more you make this world about you, the more miserable you will be.

The only solutions that are ever worth anything are the solutions that people find themselves.