“Half my life is an act of revision.”

“My life is a reading list.”

“…the consequences of sex are often more memorable than the act itself.”

“The point was - he wasn't acting. It was as if he'd forgotten how! Jack still knew his lines, but he was out of character... Jack had stopped acting. He was just Jack Burns - the real Jack Burns at last.”

“A woman half dressed seemed to have some power, but a man was simply not as handsome as when he was naked, and not as secure as when he was clothed.”

“But who can distinguish between falling in love and imagining falling in love? Even genuinely falling in love is an act of the imagination.”

“You know, everybody dies. My parents died. Your father died. Everybody dies. I'm going to die too. So will you. The thing is, to have a life before we die. It can be a real adventure having a life”