Without love, most of life remains concealed. Nothing is as fascinating as love, unfortunately.

Being in love means being at the mercy of someone's childhood.

If you want something badly enough, you make arrangements. If you don't want it badly enough, you make excuses.

And silence, like darkness, can be kind; it, too, is a language.

You can't spend your life beating yourself up for something that happened yesterday. You die if you don't follow your desire.

England has become a squalid, uncomfortable, ugly place ... an intolerant, racist, homophobic, narrow-minded, authoritarian, rat-hole run by vicious, suburban-minded, materialistic philistines.

I don't want to be loved. I want to be desired. Love is safety, but desire is foul.

Our lives can only be lived forward and understood backwards. Living a life and understanding it occupy different dimensions.

The vocation of each writer is to describe the world as he or she sees it; anything more than that is advertising.

How disturbing it is that our illusions are often our most important beliefs.

I guess writing is a kind of therapy in the sense that there are things you need to say and you say them, and better out than in.

Such to me is the new image of aging growth in self and service for all mankind.

The rooms that are lived in are the ones we find most comforting.

Carol Leifer is funny, really funny.

It’s impossible for you to lose me…because you never had me.

I have been tried and condemned without a hearing, and I suppose I shall have to go to the execution.

England did nothing in that World Cup, so why were they bringing books out? 'We got beat in the quarter-finals. I played like s**t. Here's my book.'

It's wonderful when music is intellectually stimulating. But ultimately it has to be a visceral experience.

Wherever God spends the day, He comes home to sleep in Rwanda.

Knowledge should be a public good, and I want my ideas to have as much exposure as possible.

In some ways it is absurd for me to assert, counter to evidence, that I have not been writing.