The people I know who swear the most tend to have the widest vocabularies.

I knew I couldn't believe in God, because I was fundamentally Hellenic in my outlook.

It's extremely unlucky to be superstitious, for no other reason than it is always unlucky to be colossally stupid.

Literature is the only access to truth we have on this planet.

There's nothing worse than the British in one of their fits of morality.

Living with bipolar, schizophrenia or any other mental condition takes a recognition that one has a chronic condition that needs managing. The management can be through pharmaceutical intervention, talk therapy, mindfulness programmes, diet and exercise changes, all kinds of things.

Self-consciousness, that's what it is. Always my abiding vice. I keep seeing myself. Me watching myself watching others watch me. How do you lose that? What's the trick?