Home is where the heart is, I thought now, gathering myself together in Betty's Luncheonette. I had no heart any more, it had been broken; or not broken, it simply wasn't there any more. It had been scooped neatly out of me like the yolk from a hard-boiled egg, leaving the rest of me bloodless and congealed and hollow. I'm heartless, I thought. Therefore I'm homeless.

When we think of the past it's the beautiful things we pick out. We want to believe it was all like that.

I was delighted with the film [Payback: Debt and the Shadow Side of Wealth]; it almost made me want to be a film-maker!

...and nostalgia swept through Jimmy like a sudden hunger.

How could I be sleeping with this particular man.... Surely only true love could justify my lack of taste.

Ignoring isn’t the same as ignorance, you have to work at it.

Publishers are in business to make money, and if your books do well they don't care if you are male, female, or an elephant.