I'm lucky because the strongest emotion I have ever felt is being in love, and that definitely informs my writing.

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.

I try hard not to preach, but I get carried away, which is a mistake, but it's a risk worth running.

The earth only has so much bounty to offer and inventing ever larger and more notional prices for that bounty does not change its real value.

I'm easy to work with, not a pushover, but I respond to criticism and find it inspiring.

Sympathy for victims is always counter-balanced by an equal and opposite feeling of resentment towards them.