“Think about this: in all the stories I've ever heard, genies always want to get out of the bottle. And they do get out, sooner or later.”

“Thinking about what other people do in bed will age you faster than anything. It makes your heart beat too fast.”

“Creativity is a delicious dream from which I never want to awake.”

“It’s just as well,” she thought. “If I told them what I really think, they’d shit roses.”

“All the mysteries of the universe are solved within the Imagination.”

“She [Bernice] didn’t like anything that had an adult theme, with only one exception, her collection of erotic female memorabilia. They were all antiques, fragments of other women’s sexuality that was somehow easier to deal with than her own.”

“Bernice was fascinated by Trinket because she wore her sexuality as openly as a fragrant perfume. She was also amazed by the fact that Trinket found life so easy and satisfying.”