"The vocation of each writer is to describe the world as he or she sees it anything more than that is advertising. "
- Hanif Kureishi
"You don't stop loving someone just because you hate them."
"If you never left anything or anyone there would be no room for the new. Naturally, to move on is an infidelity -- to others, to the past, to old notions of oneself. Perhaps every day should contain a..."
"People go their whole lives wanting to be admired for their hidden qualities."
"But you're beautiful, and the beautiful should be given whatever they want.""Hey, what about the ugly ones?""The ugly ones." She poked her tongue out. "It's their fault if their ugly. They're to be bl..."
"Intelligence and effort can be no compensation for ugliness."
"However angry I was with him, however much I wanted to humiliate Terry, I suddenly saw such humanity in his eyes, and in the way he tried to smile - such innocence in the way he wanted to understand m..."
"What was marriage but sex plus property."
"Freud wrote that love involves the undervaluation of reality and the overvaluation of the desired object. While the correct valuation of a person is an odd, if not impossible idea, we might say Freud ..."
"I began to enjoy my own generosity; I felt the pleasure of pleasing others, especially as this was accompanied by money-power. I was paying for them; they were grateful, they had to be; and they could..."