For feel-good fiction to work, there has to be an element of darkness.

Love and kindness go hand in hand.

You've recognised a fundamental feature of an addict's life. Maintaining your habit is so important you've no real interest in anything else.

My truth is that what doesn't kill you makes you weaker rather than stronger, although it makes you wiser.

I knew it, I just knew it! The person who had the job of writing my life's dialogue used to work on a very low budget soap opera.

Failed relationships can be described as so much wasted make-up.

The back windows looked out over the fields, then the Atlantic, maybe a hundred yards away. Actually, I'm just making that bit up. I had no idea how far away the sea was. Only men could do things like that. "Half a mile." "Fifty yards." Giving directions, that sort of thing. I could look at a woman and say "Thirty-six C." Or "Let's try it in the next size up." But I had no idea how far away Tim's sea was except that I wouldn't want to walk to it in high heels.