Only during the action is the idea of matter influenced.
Raymond Chandler I love a lot, and the Austrian writer Thomas Bernhard. I really love his voice.
I didn't think anyone who had to demand respect ever got it.
Let’s not mince words: the inside of the Sydney casino looks as if Vegas had an illegitimate child with Liberace’s underpants, and that child fell down a staircase and hit its head on the edge of a spade.
. . . I wondered if it was blasphemous to tell God that rainbows are kitsch.
I feel that there are two kinds of writers. I feel that there are writers who are storytellers and then there are those just working out their obsessions. I think I'm a combination. I think, at least for these books, I'm going with fear. I've always been interested in fear. Fear is something I've dealt with in life, and I think it's the main motivating factor of everything, almost. From sex to politics.
. . . I thought how I hate any kind of mob - I hate mobs of sports fans, mobs of environmental demonstrators, I even hate mobs of super-models, that's how much I hate mobs. I tell you, mankind is bearable only when you get him on his own.
No country has ever closely scrutinized itself visually.
Our prayers lay the track down which God's power can come.
'Tis now the summer of your youth: time has not cropped the roses from your cheek, though sorrow long has washed them.
There is only one smartest dog in the world, and every boy has it.