How disturbing it is that our illusions are often our most important beliefs.

No amount of promises can guarantee love

Please remove your watch,' he said. 'In my domain time isn't a factor.

Anna Karenina is just a story about a woman falling in love with a bloke who is not her husband. Its gossip, rubbish - on the other hand, its the deepest story there could be about social transgression, about love, betrayal, duty, children.

The vocation of each writer is to describe the world as he or she sees it; anything more than that is advertising.

Children, who have yet to learn our ways, are notoriously promiscuous in their affection. They’ll sit on anyone’s knee.

I can't sleep with you tonight, baby, my head's all messed up, you've no idea. It's somewhere else and it's full of voices and songs and bad things.