35 Quotes by Zoe Heller

If this was cynical, then we must allow that all courtship is cynical.

[...]One pretends that manners are the formalisation of basic kindness and consideration, but a great deal of the time they're simply aesthetics dressed up as moral principles, aren't they?

We are bound by the secrets we share.

...elegance loses its power in the presence of the properly stupid...

If everybody was so reverent of the institute of marriage, how did all the adultery get committed?

I feel particularly lucky because I've got as professional and sympathetic a team as I could have,

I don't think it's to be taken too seriously,

But it's a useful way of increasing sales and drawing attention to literary fiction, which is no bad thing.

It's always a disappointing business confronting my own reflection. My body isn't bad. It's a perfectly nice, serviceable body. It's just that the external me- the study, lightly wrinkled, handbagged me- does so little credit to the stuff that's inside.