No act is so private it does not seek applause.

From infancy on, we are all spies; the shame is not this but that the secrets to be discovered are so paltry and few.

Chinese food in Texas is the best Chinese food in the United States except Boston.

There is no such thing as static happiness. Happiness is a mixed thing, a thing compounded of sacrifices, and losses, and betrayals.

Momentarily drained of lust, he stares at the remembered contortions to which it has driven him. His life seems a sequence of grotesque poses assumed to no purpose, a magic dance empty of belief. There...