Beyond love, beyond unrequited love, perhaps even beyond any other passion known to humanity, deep, deep in the depths of the turgid, clinging, swamplike pit of despair that lies dormant within every soul, lurks JEALOUSY. Jealousy, that most demeaning and debilitating of emotions. Jealousy, which can double the strength of the love upon which it is based, but whilst doubling it, warp and pervert it, untill it is no longer recognizable as the thing of beauty it once was. Jealous love is no more like true love than Mr Hyde was like Dr Jekyll or a stagnant swamp is like a freshwater lake.

Leaders should never, ever try to look cool - that's for dictators

You think I look like a teletubby?

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

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

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

I don't consider myself Jewish. I am half-Jewish by race but not through my mother.