Life - and I don't suppose I'm the first to make this comparison - is a disease: sexually transmitted, and invariably fatal.

“This is not a place, after all. It is BETWEEN places. This is NOWHERE. A brief …”

“Nobody will ever hurt her. She’ll just smile her faint vague wonderful smile an…”

“To say that Richard Mayhew was not very good at heights would be perfectly accu…”

“La Libertad — bramó Wednesday — es una ramera con la que hay que acostarse sobr…”