14 Quotes by A.P.

Sabine used to maintain that preparation for a dance is comparable to what goes on in the back room of a butcher's shop: the meat for consumption is sliced and dressed and put in nice little paper packages, ready for the kitchen.

Even the biggest blaze, though, has to start somewhere, with a tiny spark, or arsonists would be out of business.

Obscenity is a function of culture - a function in the mathematical sense, I mean, its value changing with that of the variables on which it depends.

Serena had to cross her legs: in moments of dire amusement her bladder tended to play tricks.

Where is the pain when your pride is wounded? And why do we say that: wounded? There is no gash, no blood, not even a scratch. Which part of us hurts? The brain cells? The neurons? What, for goodness' sake, what?

All eyes turned to look at us' would be a slipshod way of putting it; eyes don't turn anyway, heads do, but as our little group joined the fringe of the assembly, there was a discernible swivelling of attention in our direction.

Enemy number one was now the disease. It had a presence as solid as that of a person - I think all serious illnesses do.

Shape? Does a fog have shape? Does the twilight? Does the onset of darkness?

...music, music, records, records, noise to cover silence.