The Last Word Quotes.

1. "If you want to know a man, see how he is in love."
- Hanif Kureishi, The Last Word

2. "There’s a lot of degradation in sex, isn’t there? When it’s done right."
- Hanif Kureishi, The Last Word

3. "It is only the insane who achieve anything significant."
- Hanif Kureishi, The Last Word

4. "Most people don’t know how to maximise their pleasure, they sexualise their pain. Surely you’ve noticed that most people live without love, spending their lives trying to find people they’re not turned on by."
- Hanif Kureishi, The Last Word

5. "At detumescence, after all, there is conversation, that is where love begins."
- Hanif Kureishi, The Last Word

6. "What was marriage but sex plus property."
- Hanif Kureishi, The Last Word

7. "If there’s no sacrifice, there’s no love."
- Hanif Kureishi, The Last Word

8. "A man who hasn’t left behind him a string of broken women has hardly been alive."
- Hanif Kureishi, The Last Word

9. "Plato, along with the latest pope, recognised how dangerous it is to have an artist around making mischief, stirring things up with the spoon of truth and intoxicant of fantasy and magic. And so, for crossing the line, and for stealing God’s fire, artists were banned, imprisoned, condemned, silenced, killed – they always would be, these sometimes Christs of the page."
- Hanif Kureishi, The Last Word

10. "behind him a string of broken women has hardly been alive."
- Hanif Kureishi, The Last Word