A book is simply the container of an idea like a bottle; what is inside the book is what matters.

Angela Carter
Novelist

A day without an argument is like an egg without salt.

Angela Carter
Novelist

Aeneas carried his aged father on his back from the ruins of Troy and so do we all, whether we like it or not, perhaps even if we have never known them.

Angela Carter
Novelist

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

Angela Carter
Novelist

Art need no longer be an account of past sensations. It can become the direct organization of more highly evolved sensations. It is a question of producing ourselves, not things that enslave us.

Angela Carter
Novelist

Comedy is tragedy that happens to other people.

Angela Carter
Novelist

It's every woman's tragedy, that, after a certain age, she looks like a female impersonator. Mind you, we've known some lovely female impersonators, in our time.

Angela Carter
Novelist

The revenues of Cuban state-run companies are used exclusively for the benefit of the people, to whom they belong.

Fidel Castro
Statesman

Hollywood... was the place where the United States perpetrated itself as a universal dream and put the dream into mass production.

Angela Carter
Novelist

I haven't changed much, over the years. I use less adjectives, now, and have a kinder heart, perhaps.

Angela Carter
Novelist