Katherine Dunn

Prior to penicillin and medical research, death was an everyday occurrence. It was intimate.

This idea that males are physically aggressive and females are not has distinct drawbacks for both sexes.

American culture is torn between our long romance with violence and our terror of the devastation wrought by war and crime and environmental havoc.

A man of letters never objects to a slum. He sharpens his pen there.

I feel sorry for generations of Labour voters and supporters who must look and wonder what on earth has gone wrong and what Labour is for.

I loved Catherine Deneuve, Sophia Loren, and Ursula Andress. They had an incredible strength but fragility at the same time, especially Catherine Deneuve, who had an aloofness that impressed me.