A good bookshop is just a genteel Black Hole that knows how to read.
What our ancestors would really be thinking, if they were alive today, is: “Why is it so dark in here?”
[The pamphlet] was very patriotic. That is, it talked about killing foreigners.
Drugs are a bet with your mind.
Life is just a quick succession of busy nothings.
She had a pretty gift for quotation, which is a serviceable substitute for wit.
In films murders are always very clean. I show how difficult it is and what a messy thing it is to kill a man.
Study without desire spoils the memory, and it retains nothing that it takes in.