"Throwing open the door, she brings forth the veritable queen of all the souffles, that spreads its archangelic wings …"

"Women's sexy underwear is a minor but significant growth industry of late-twentieth-century Britain in the twilight o…"

"Comedy is tragedy that happens to other people."

"Cities have sexes: London is a man, Paris a woman, and New York a well-adjusted transsexual."

"A book is simply the container of an idea—like a bottle; what is inside the book is what matters."

"Aeneas carried his aged father on his back from the ruins of Troy and so do we all, whether we like it or not, perhap…"

"My work cuts like a steel blade at the base of a man's penis."

"I'm interested in the division that Judeo-Christianity has made between human nature and animal nature. None of the o…"

"Her writing life began in her early 20s in , where she and her first husband, Paul Carter, were part of the folk scen…"

""Lest that by any means When I have preached to others I myself Should be a castaway." If some one now Would take tha…"