When you take a lot of cocaine powder you tend to take a lot of alcohol with it as well, so for many years really I never went out without at least four or five grams of cocaine powder.

A month's salary, deep regret, the telephone number of some foul rehab clinic and my lance was free.

When we understand every single secret of the universe, there will still be left the eternal mystery of the human heart.

There is not any way that you can just choose the nice bits and say that means there is a God and ignore the true fact of what nature is.

...as absurd and dishonest as claiming that the trouble with computer games is that they stop people watching television.

It is the useless things that make life worth living and that make life dangerous too: wine, love, art, beauty. Without them life is safe, but not worth bothering with.

The English language is like London: proudly barbaric yet deeply civilised, too, common yet royal, vulgar yet processional, sacred yet profane.