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.

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

No collection of people who are all waiting for the same thing are capable of holding a natural conversation. Even if the thing they are waiting for is only a taxi.

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

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

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