God's law is 'right reason. ' When perfectly understood it is called 'wisdom. ' When applied by government in regulating human relations it is called 'justice.
. . . I wondered if it was blasphemous to tell God that rainbows are kitsch.
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 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.
People carry their secrets in hidden places, not on their faces. They carry suffering on their faces. Also bitterness if there’s room.
I like to stay home and watch television. The Game Show channel, mostly.
Anyone who has ever looked into the glazed eyes of a soldier dying on the battlefield will think hard before starting a war.
And why not death rather than living torment? To die is to be banish'd from myself; And Silvia is myself: banish'd from her Is self from self: a deadly banishment!
Man, of all the animals, is probably the only one to regard himself as a great delicacy.