Angela CarterThinkers

Anxiety is the beginning of conscience, which is the parent of the soul but is not compatible with innocence.

The Book is simply the container of an idea like a bottle... what is inside the book is what matters.

The City is gendered: London is a man, paris a woman, and new york a well-adjusted transsexual.

Comedy is tragedy that happens to other people.

London is a man, paris a woman, and new york a well-adjusted transsexual.

Marriage is but prostitution to one man instead of many.

New York City is a well-adjusted transsexual, paris is a woman, and london is a man.

Nostalgia is the vice of the aged.

Pornography is a satire on human pretensions.

Tea time is a uniquely English meal, an unnecessary collation at which no stimulants -- neither alcohol nor meat -- are served, a comforting repast of which to partake is as good as second childhood.