I suppose that each of us may have a great moment in our life, a month, a week a year, when we are most fully what we are meant to be

The best thing is the combined effect of nicotine with alcohol, greater than the sum of the two parts.

If not just the brain but the quirks that made the individual were composed of recycled matter only, it was hard to be sure where the edges of one such being ended and another person began.

Gradually the feeling wears off, and I feel swamped again by the inexplicable pettiness of being alive.

One thing about London is that when you step out into the night, it swallows you.

I suppose that each of us may have a great moment in our life, a month, a week a year, when we are most fully what we are meant to be

The physical shock took away the pain of being.