“You have to know someone intimately to be able to love them. So love at first sight is a contradiction in terms. Unless in that first sight there's some sort of mystical gigabyte downloading of information from one mind into the other.”
― Ghostwritten
― Ghostwritten
“London is a language. I guess all places are.”
― Ghostwritten
― Ghostwritten
“I pass through many Me's in the course of my day, each one selfish with his time. The Lying-in-Bed me and the Enjoying-the-Hot-Shower Me are particularly selfish. The Late Me loathes the pair of them.”
― Ghostwritten
― Ghostwritten
“Birth deals us out a hand of cards, but as important as their value is the place we are dealt them in.”
― Ghostwritten
― Ghostwritten
“Italians give their city sexes, and they all agree that the sex for a particular city is quite correct, but none of them can explain why. I love that. London's middle-aged and male, respectably married but secretly gay.”
― Ghostwritten
― Ghostwritten
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