Life is a moderately good play with a badly written third act. |
Love is a chain of love as nature is a chain of life. |
Mick Jagger is about as sexy as a pissing toad. |
Most contemporary novelists, especially the American and the French, are too subjective, mesmerized by private demons; they're enraptured by their navels and confined by a view that ends with their own toes. |
My major regret in life is that my childhood was unnecessarily lonely. |
Nancy, the road didn't write the book. |
No one will ever know what 'In Cold Blood' took out of me. It scraped me right down to the marrow of my bones. It nearly killed me. I think, in a way, it did kill me. |
No. ... One doesn't spend almost six years on a book, the point of which is factual accuracy, and then give way to minor distortions. People are so suspicious ... |
Other voices, other rooms |
People who are having a love-sex relationship are continuously lying to each other because the very nature of the relationship demands that they do, because you have to make a love object of this person, which means that you editorialize about them. You cut out what you don't want to see, you add this if it isn't there. And so therefore you're building a lie. |
She is pure Alice in Wonderland, and her appearance and demeanor are a nicely judged mix of the Red Queen and a flamingo. |
Sometimes when I think how good my book can be, I can hardly breathe. |
That's not writing, that's typing. |
The better the actor the more stupid he is |
The good thing about masturbation is that you don't have to dress up for it |