"The Sweet Smell of Excess: Will Self, Bataille and Transgression"

"Self-respect is a question of recognizing that anything worth having has a price."

"I couldn't do ventriloquism. I don't have any interest in splitting myself in two, the way a ventriloquist …"

"Magnitude-notions are only possible where there is an antecedent general notion which admits of different s…"

"Him that makes shoes go barefoot himself."

"If I do find pride, I'll not find it in what I was or what I am, but what I may become. Not in my birth, bu…"

"He was the sort of man the essence of whose presence is absence."