He is, I think, already pondering a magisterial project: that of buggering the English language, the ultimate revenge of the colonialised.

In the mythic schema of all relations between men and women, man proposes, and woman is disposed of.

Nostalgia, the vice of the aged. We watch so many old movies our memories come in monochrome.

I think it's one of the scars in our culture that we have too high an opinion of ourselves. We align ourselves with the angels instead of the higher primates.

I haven't changed much, over the years. I use less adjectives, now, and have a kinder heart, perhaps.

I see her as a series of marvellous shapes formed at random in the kaleidoscope of desire.

What a joy it is to dance and sing!

Reading a book is like re-writing it for yourself. You bring to a novel, anything you read, all your experience of the world. You bring your history and you read it in your own terms.

We must all make do with the rags of love we find flapping on the scarecrow of humanity.

Language is power, life and the instrument of culture, the instrument of domination and liberation.

If Miss means respectably unmarried, and Mrs. respectably married, then Ms. means nudge, nudge, wink, wink.

People talk about the conscience, but it seems to me one must just bring it up to a certain point and leave it there. You can let your conscience alone if you're nice to the second housemaid.

No man ever got lost on a straight road.

Lo, what huge heaps of littleness around!

I have 4 bedrooms in my house. 1 is for guests, the other 3 are for closets.

He that is rich need not live sparingly, and he that can live sparingly need not be rich.

Whenever you set a goal of any kind, you will have to grow and develop to the point where you are ready to achieve it.

The only thing one can do one day one did not do the day before is to die.

autobiography at least saves a man or woman that the world is curious about from the publication of a string of mistakes called 'Memoirs.

I learned pretty early is I never defend my material; it's for other people to if someone is offended. It's so subjective, and if you don't find it funny, it's definitely going to be offensive.

No more materialism, no more this egoism, I must become spiritual.