Being a professional ... is making fewer mistakes than others, as few as possible.

Advisors are generally brilliant theoreticians but wretched practitioners.

Off-the-rack solutions, like bargain basement dresses, never fit anymore.

Nothing is more difficult than competing with a myth

Desire can be as fragile as it is sudden.

She was waiting, but she didn't know for what. She was aware only of her solitude, and of the penetrating cold, and of a greater weight in the region of her heart.

In life, you have 3 choices. Give up, give in, or give it your all.

I don’t care how smart you are. You’ll never understand how little you really know until you’ve had a woman.

Someone has to die in order that the rest of us should value life more.

My mother would say it is literally ghost writers who come to me.

To a writer, an open browser tab is like a glass of whiskey. 1 or 2 can help the work. Too many ensures that nothing gets done.

Don't expect ambiguities, hesitations or palace intrigues from me.

The Expulsion from Eden is an act of vindictive womanish spite; the Fall of Man, as recounted in the Bible, comes nearer to the Fall of God.

Avoid people who tell you that something you want to do is not possible.

I spend hundreds of pounds a year on candles and it is such a waste of money. It is burning cash whatever way you look at it but I love them.