Philip Sington

Quotes

• “Who is the other woman whose photograph I do not have? If my mother was the first in my life, she was the last: my lover...”
• “…it seemed to Kirsch that the most reliable guide to the mental landscape of a patient was the patient himself. He was b...”
• “I have found that in fiction one is freer to speak the truth, if only because in fiction the truth is not expected or re...”
• “Desire is an appetite, quickly sated. Longing is a wound, an opening in the heart or the spirit. Whatever the cause, wha...”
• “For the writer under Actually Existing Socialism describing sex is a simple matter: he simply does not do it (the descri...”
• “Problems are there to be solved. How dull life would be without them.”
• “I wanted her body and soul, but body first.”