If you are lucky, you have your moment. But it is never more than a moment. You have to enjoy it while it lasts.

I think I have a very detailed sense of observation. I am interested in the details of people's lives and what information these details give.

I envy people who can think, 'No, I'm not going to work today' when they have a huge pile of deadlines stacking up.

Sometimes the weekend gets hijacked by work, but as my mother would say, this is the right problem.

Lust, that state commonly known as 'being in love,' is a kind of madness. It is a distortion of reality so remarkable that it should, by rights, enable most of us to understand the other forms of lunacy with the sympathy of fellow-sufferers. But, paradoxically, mad and suffering as one is, and the heat of the flame, few of us are glad as we feel that passion slip away No, while most people have been at their unhappiest when in love, it is nevertheless the state the human being yearns for above all.

I have fits of melancholia when I watch the news, but we all do, don't we?

I mean the truth is, I've always been interested in the whole setup of the old world.