Money, it turned out, was exactly like sex. You thought of nothing else if you didn't have it and thought of other things if you did.

The roles that we construct are constructed because we feel that they will help us to survive and also, of course, because they fulfill something in our person…

The primary distinction of the artist is that he must actively cultivate that state which most men, necessarily, must avoid: the state of being alone.

Nobody is more dangerous than he who imagines himself pure in heart; for his purity, by definition, is unassailable.

Le desir s'accroit quand l'effet se recule.

He had discovered a great law of human action, without knowing it - namely, that in order to make a man or a boy covet a thing, it is only necessary to make th…

She brightened. 'Last week I ran a personal ad in the Guardian. I answered a few too. I'm not looking for sex; I feel too vulnerable for that. I just want some…