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I can tell by now that you are wondering whether I can be trusted as a narrator. Why didn't I dump Inge and head for a Singles Bar? The answer is her breasts.

what the church calls love is actually psychosis and (...) what makes life difficult for homosexuals is not their perversity but other people's.

The important things. Where should I find them? In the detail, like God? In the risk, like the Devil?

Witchery popery popery witchery – all the same thing.

We are a lukewarm people and our longing for freedom is our longing for love. If we had the courage to love we would not so value these acts of war.

A taste for ostentation is rarely associated in the same souls with a taste for honesty

the truth is no road to fortune, and the populace doesn't give out ambassadorships, university chairs, or pensions.

It makes me feel very much what I believe I have said in some work, that remorse sleeps during a prosperous fate and grows sour in adversity

As she put it, she knew of nothing so ravishing as having a child whom she could whip whenever she was in a bad mood. (The Queen Fantasque)

Okay, kids,' Dad said, 'the civilians are revolting. We better skedaddle.

During the sermon, the priest discussed the miracle of Immaculate Conception and the Virgin Birth. "Virgin, my ass!" Dad shouted. "Mary was a sweet Jewish broad who got herself knocked up!

I have no need for good souls: an accomplice is what I wanted.

Have the courage to read this book, for in the first place it will make you ashamed, and shame, as Marx said, is a revolutionary sentiment.

Will you do me the honour of lunching with me on Wednesday?" "With pleasure." I had as much desire to eat with him as I had to hang myself.

A doll with skin like that isn't going to mess it up with a revolver shot. [...] Revolvers are meant for crocodile-skins like ours.

I am not listening to him any more, but he must have strayed from his original subject because I suddenly hear: . . . to have, as you, the good fortune of writing a book. I have to say something. Good fortune, I say, dubiously. He mistakes the sense of my answer and rapidly corrects himself: Monsieur, I should have said: 'merit.

It is very unfair in any writer to employ ignorance and malice together, because it gives his answerer double work.

I know for a fact that - it's just the way our biases work now in the industry of literature, but certainly a short story collection does not receive the same kind of attention as a novel.

I love that you work out relationships with people as you're filming just to get something real to play on screen.

My family pleaded with me to forget literature and do something sensible, such as find some sort of useful work.

Every weekend he'd have me come down to work on Dragnet, which by now was on television as well as radio.

I'd love to work on a script in collaboration.

At Cambridge, it was the weirdest culture. Everyone pretended they didn't do any work, yet it was so competitive.

The Mayor of Hong Kong, who said Can't work today. Have American flu. Never got a dinner!