Artists don't create society, they reflect it

People who get through life dependent on other people's possessions are always the first to lecture you on how little possessions count.

You're mugging old ladies every bit as much if you pinch their pension fund

I think trying to be cool is the worst possible ambition - and I have never suffered from it.

Yes, OK, farty is a silly word. I wish I'd never used it. I'm 34. Perhaps it was a word for my 20s.

If only the strength of the love that people feel when it is reciprocated could be as intense and obsessive as the love we feel when it is not; then marriages would be truly made in heaven.

Kingsley watched her disappear from the room, wondering if his heart would break. Logic informed him that of course it would not. The heart was no more than a muscle, a pump which distributed blood about the body.