It's only after the change is fully formed that you can see what's happened.

Why take drugs specifically designed to send you insane?

We're deaf men working as musicians; we play the music but we can't hear it.

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.

I'd never chosen to be alone, but that was the way things had turned out, and I'd grown used to it.

If I could eat only one thing for the rest of my life, it would be rhubarb fool, which I make with ginger and a hint of elderflower cordial.

Inhale and hold the evening in your lungs.