I have absolutely no concept of work, except for university. But I like to talk to people a lot about their jobs.

If love is what is held to make us immortal, hatred is the reverse.

It is interesting how keen people are for you to do something they would never dream of doing themselves, how enthusiasticall y they drive you to your own destruction.

I have absolutely no concept of work, except for university. But I like to talk to people a lot about their jobs.

A feminist man is a bit like a vegetarian: it's the humanitarian principle he's defending, I suppose.

An eating disorder epidemic suggests that love and disgust are being jointly marketed, as it were; that wherever the proposition might first have come from, the unacceptability of the female body has been disseminated culturally.

For me, a novel is always the result of my attempt to impose myself on raw circumstances. It is a concrete form of lived experience.