I need coffee to deal with this, and I’m not getting decaf.

We are exiles in Time's abyss, strangers now in the Promised Land.

I believe the secret of the success of psychoanalysis resides in people's vanity.

Lovers may be - and indeed generally are - enemies, but they never can be friends, because there must always be a spice of jealousy and a something of Self in all their speculations.

I don't think male characters are as one-dimensional as female characters.

I'm a writer. I never expected to be recognised on the street. I never expected to get that kind of coverage, good or bad. I never expected to sell as many books as I have.

In other words, the people who populate my books are more than caricatures.

Our long-term objective is clear: to replace the Labour Party as the progressive wing of politics in this country.

Men and women are moved by tides much fiercer than you can imagine, and they sweep us all up into the current.

High school and equality are forever incompatible.

I didn't want to be a fashion designer, and for a good half of my career I didn't like it. I always wanted to do other things.