I found it all about as arousing as a Tupperware party.

As children everyone thinks their family is weird and they're upset by the weirdness of their own family.

You'll often hear the phrase "science doesn't know everything." Well, of course it doesn't know everything. But just because science doesn't know everything doesn't mean that it knows nothing.

Estate agents: like them or loathe them, you'd be mad not to loathe them.

I went to Cambridge and thought I would stay there. I thought I would quietly grow tweed in a corner somewhere and become a Don or something.

But an Adrian also knew that an Adrian's lies were real: they were lived and felt and acted out as thoroughly as another man's truths - if other men had truths - and he believed it possible that this last lie might see him through to the grave.

There can't be that many individual souls. Not souls like mine. There isn't room. There can't be.