Nobody speaks the truth when there's something they must have.

It is a wary business, walking about a strange house you are to know well. Only cats and dogs with their more expressive bodies enact the tension we share with…

Intimacies between women often go backwards, beginning in revelations and ending in small talk, without loss of esteem.

And yet in a way I would rather fail point blank. Things one can do have no value. I don't mind feeling small myself, but I dread finding the world is.

All I want is a warm bed, a kind word and unlimited power.

It's a rare person who wants to hear what he doesn't want to hear.

No one who, like me, conjures up the most evil of those half-tamed demons that inhabit the human beast, and seeks to wrestle with them, can expect to come thro…