Under every friendship there is a difficult sentence that must be said, in order that the friendship can be survived.

When a human being becomes a set of data on a website like Facebook, he or she is reduced. Everything shrinks. Individual character. Friendships. Language. Sensibility.

When the male organ of a man stands erect, two thirds of his intelect go away. And one third of his religion.

'A reality shaped around your own desires' - there is something sociopathic in that ambition.

You don't have favourites among your children, but you do have allies.

Where I come from," said Archie, "a bloke likes to get to know a girl before he marries her." "Where you come from it is customary to boil vegetables until they fall apart. This does not mean," said Samad tersely, "that it is a good idea.

Learning how to be a good reader is what makes you a writer.