Edward St. Aubyn

Quotes

• “An image flashed across her mind of two rams flinging their heads against each other on a rocky mountainside. What did t...”
• “Old enough to remember the arrival of 'Have a nice day', Patrick could only look with alarm on the hyperinflation of 'Ha...”
• “Were the ironies of taxation any better: raising money for schools and hospitals and roads and bridges, and spending it ...”
• “There seemed to be no one in a position of power, from the Vatican to Wall Street, from Parliament to Scotland Yard to F...”
• “An editor sleeping with his writer was not as bad as a psychoanalyst sleeping with his patient, or even a professor slee...”
• “Was he, after all, really a bad man doing a brilliant impersonation of an idiot? It was hard to tell. The connections be...”
• “The measure of a work of art is how much art it has in it, not how much ‘relevance’. Relevant to whom? Relevant to what?...”
• “No pain is too small if it hurts, but any pain is too big if it's cherished.”
• “His conscience, like a sunburnt scorpion, was stinging itself to death.”