'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.'

'It was ideal apple-eating weather; the whitest sunlight descended from the purest sky, and an easterly wind rustled, without ripping loose, the last of the le…

'Mick Jagger is about as sexy as a pissing toad'

'Fame is only good for one thing-they will cash your check in a small town.'

We never love someone. We just love the idea we have of someone. It's a concept of ours - summing up, ourselves - that we love.

'Tis never for their wisdom that one loves the wisest, or for their wit that one loves the wittiest; 'tis for benevolence, and virtue, and honest fondness, one…

To conceal anything from those to whom I am attached, is not in my nature. I can never close my lips where I have opened my heart.