It's very hard to imagine the phrase "consumer society" used so cheerfully, and interpreted so enthusiastically, in England.

What I find most upsetting about this new all-consuming beauty culture is that the obsession with good looks, and how you can supposedly attain them, is almost entirely female-driven.

A wedding is a funeral which masquerades as a feast. And the greater the pageantry, the deeper the savagery.

I just have a real problem with people who seek to portray fatness or thinness as moral concepts.

The freedom that women were supposed to have found in the Sixties largely boiled down to easy contraception and abortion; things to make life easier for men, in fact.

Now the whole dizzying and delirious range of sexual possibilities has been boiled down to that one big, boring, bulimic word. RELATIONSHIP.

If you want sex, have an affair. If you want a relationship, buy a dog.