The kind of power mothers have is enormous. Take the skyline of Istanbul - enormous breasts, pathetic little willies, a final revenge on Islam. I was….

Nostalgia, the vice of the aged..

Nostalgia, the vice of the aged. We watch so many old movies our memories come in monochrome..

It may be the first in what I trust will be a rapidly growing and influential genre--the novel designed on purpose to be excludedfrom the Booker shor….

Reciprocity of sensation is not possible because to share is to be robbed..

Hope for the best, expect the worst..

Language is power, life and the instrument of culture, the instrument of domination and liberation..

He was prepared to die for it, as one of Baudelaire's dandies might have been prepared to kill himself in order to preserve himself in the condition ….

It shone on everyone, whether they had a contract or not. The most democratic thing I'd ever seen, that California sunshine..

As for my father, few souls are less troubled. He can be simply pleased with us, pleased that we exist, and, from the vantage point of his wondrously….

Stars on our door, stars in our eyes, stars exploding in the bits of our brains where the common sense should have been.

Mother is in herself a concrete denial of the idea of sexual pleasure since her sexuality has been placed at the service of reproductive function alo….

She said to the Daisy girl with her big brown eyes: 'I will not have it plain. No. Fancy. It must be fancy!' She meant her future. A moon-daisy dropp….

I think I want to be in love with you but I don't know how..

It is far easier for a woman to lead a blameless life than it is for a man; all she has to do is to avoid sexual intercourse like the plague..

Your thin white face, chérie; he said, as if he saw it for the first time. Your thin white face, with its promise of debauchery only a connoisseur co….

Mother goddesses are just as silly a notion as father gods. If a revival of the myths of these cults gives woman emotional satisfaction, it does so a….

Losing their names, these things underwent a process of uncreation..

She stands and moves within the invisible pentacle of her own virginity. She is an unbroken egg: she is a sealed vessel; she has inside her a magic s….

Midnight, and the clock strikes. It is Christmas Day, the werewolves birthday, the door of the solstice still wide enough open to let them all slink ….

If Miss means respectably unmarried, and Mrs. respectably married, then Ms. means nudge, nudge, wink, wink..