Pleasantly bustling shoppers streamed past us on Bond Street - smart-suited men and well-heeled women whose commitment to luxury goods glazed over their eyes like a bad case of malaria.

I suppose you’re young, ’ she conceded, managing once again to make youth sound like impetigo

I had walked all over the fragile bloom of his heart like a Boadicea in Blahniks

The Duke is worried you lack the fitness to walk up Bond Street. You’re generation lacks the drive.

I had entered a world that no one with an evolved sense of joie de vivre would touch with a barge pole - it's called "Joining the Property Market" and it trumps war for stress!

Sometimes memory is the only gift we give ourselves and the only hope we have of finding our way home.

Truces may stop the battles, but part of you will always feel like you're at war.

What we do for each other before marriage is no indication of what we will do after marriage.

I grew up with a very big extended family, with a lot of aunts. We had about five or six houses on one street.

We must not forget that the wheel is reinvented so often because it is a very good idea; I've learned to worry more about the soundness of ideas that were invented only once.

Don't take shortcuts; if I want to be true to my beliefs, then shortcuts do not exist.

Fate never knows when comedy ends and tragedy begins.

All writers are thieves; theft is a necessary tool of the trade.

The future struggles that it may not become the past.

Every time i try and wink at someone, I mess it up and end up scaring people.