“In a secular age, an authentic miracle must purport to be a hoax, in o...” — Angela Carter Quote

“In a secular age, an authentic miracle must purport to be a hoax, in order to gain credit in the world.”

“Where ambition can cover its enterprises, even to the person himself, under the appearance of principle, it is the most incurable and inflexible of passions.”

“If the Barbarians are destroyed, who will we then be able to blame for the bad things?”

“The goal of a life free of dysphoria is a snare and a delusion. A better goal is of good commerce with the world. Authentic happiness, astonishingly, can occur even in the presence of authentic sadness.”

“I think being completely authentic about the time you live in is something that I would view as a career-long objective - to find out what is authentically this moment.”

“The world of crime is a last refuge of the authentic, uncorrupted, spontaneous event.”