Every novelist has a different purpose - and often several purposes which might even be contradictory.
Careful preparation is necessary before people can perceive something which is there all the time.
Honestly, I have a tendency to date dorks. Which means that a lot of times, I date guys that no one else would deem to be a hunk.
To a man of pleasure every moment appears to be lost, which partakes not of the vivacity of amusement.
It is singularity which often makes the worst part of our suffering, as it always does of our conduct.
I get called Jacqueline Bissette in America. In France, I get called Jackie Bisset. And actually, it is Jacqueline Bisset, which is not that easy to say.
A companion loves some agreeable qualities which a man may possess, but a friend loves the man himself.
I think anybody with an insecurity, which is everyone, appreciates the fact that it's much easier to be a predator than it is to be prey.
Mathematical discoveries, like springtime violets in the woods, have their season which no man can hasten or retard.
Something about being projected on a 70 foot screen makes you more attractive and appealing to the opposite sex, which is pretty scary.
Rage is the only quality which has kept me, or anybody I have ever studied, writing columns for newspapers.
There is no original or primary gender a drag imitates, but gender is a kind of imitation for which there is no original.
This is the only real concern of the artist, to recreate out of the disorder of life that order which is art.
School prepares you for the real world... which also bites.
Behavior which appears superficially correct but is intrinsically corrupt always irritates those who see below the surface.
There are many examples in high schools which show something about the effects such competition might have.
I lived my twenties on the road, in all different countries experiencing this momentum of a career which was taking off in its own way.
There are truths which one can only say after having won the right to say them.
I can't remember ever staying for the end of a movie in which the actors wore togas.
I thought then, and I think now, that the invasion of Iraq was unnecessary and unjust. And I think the premises on which it was launched were false.
And I used to buy 'Fangoria,' the horror magazine, which made my mum wonder if I was going to be a serial killer.
