I exercise hard and the reason I do is so that I can earn the things I like to consume.

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.

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.

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 think it is very difficult to legislate for morality.

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.

You didn't wake up, your dreams just changed gear.