If you could fly you’d want to do something else, like swim.
The strange thing about your smile is that it has never once become less real or less intense. It is a smile caught from a moment in a still photograph, now extended into an indefinitely long moving film.
The cities are deserts where people are alone and lonely.
Asked to describe death he busied himself taking Polaroid photographs of his questioners.
Humanity is god. Humanity is the only god I know.
She had reached the safety she had ached for and now she was prey to the boredom that safety brought with it.
She had the face of someone who had come out of a sad movie at three o’clock in the afternoon.
Wishing to hurt him, she slapped his face. Wishing to hurt her, he smiled brilliantly.
In business you could never be sure whether it was an asset or a liability to be an American.
He looked at her: eyes that had once looked at him with love, now dull and lustreless, lips that had covered his body in soft passionate kisses, now thin and full of tension.
His thoughts were slippery, elusive, tangled strands of wet white spaghetti which he could neither grasp nor leave alone.
Her only talent was her life, her addiction to fear and danger.
Institutions that had proved the very basis of our society (the family, the neighbourhood, marriage) cracked and split apart in the face of a new shrill current of desperate selfishness.
A true friend, he had answered, was someone you could stand naked before, who would never judge you, whom you could share your darkest secrets with, and so on.
Asked to describe marriage he handed out small cheap mirrors with MADE IN TUNISIA written on the back.
If you now hate me, it was you who were imitating love, not I.
The world is merely a dream dreamt by god who is waking after a long sleep.
The difficulty with both of us is that we were raised to believe that we were somehow special.
The world, according to my father, was exactly like the human body and had its own defence mechanisms with which it defended itself against anything that either threatened it or was unnecessary to it.