New York City has fantastic restaurants and, unlike London, a lot of the best restaurants are relatively cheap.

The greatest danger of being gifted, is that you may never learn how to make an effort.

A public role endures for the literary high-command, as sages and seers, speaking out on social and political issues.

As suburbs go, Bromley's not bad. But as David Bowie and Hanif Kureishi have observed, you do want to get out of there quickly.

Why is erasing desire seen as so important? If the subjugation of the self is the point of the self what's the point in having a self? It's like someone handing you a leaflet which says throw this leaflet away.

Like most men, I'm a life support system for a phallus.

I always consider every place worth exploring once- just in case there's a thirty foot flaming sign divulging the secret of life, that no one has told me about.