Women's sexy underwear is a minor but significant growth industry of late-twentieth-century Britain in the twilight of capitalism.

I had the brief notion that his heart, pressed flat as a flower, crimson and thin as tissue paper, lay in this file. It was a very thin one.

Midnight, and the clock strikes. It is Christmas Day, the werewolves birthday, the door of the solstice still wide enough open to let them all slink through.

The kind of power mothers have is enormous. Take the skyline of Istanbul - enormous breasts, pathetic little willies, a final revenge on Islam. I was so scared I had to crouch in the bottom of the boat when I saw it.

Cities have sexes: London is a man, Paris a woman, and New York a well-adjusted transsexual.

A fairy tale is the kind of story in which one king goes to another king to borrow a cup of sugar

Love is desire sustained by unfulfilment.