That sense of happiness just out beyond my reach - I'm not sure I'd grasped that exactly, but I'd got something close to it, contentment maybe, or at least a functioning routine with regular rewards.

Lonely's like any other organism; competitive and resourceful in the struggle to perpetuate itself.

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

You put your time where your priority is.

I am driven by a greater force than I can resist. I believe that force has its own reason and its own morality even if they may never be clear to me while I am alive

Inhale and hold the evening in your lungs.

In the 1970s, British food was beginning to get good, whereas in France it was just starting its long, sad decline. My most memorable meals, however, have been in Italy.