Women always think you need a man, you need a father, as if they'd be the slightest use. Men are a dead weight, they're clumsy and maladjusted.

Theatre is a mirror, a sharp reflection of society. The greatest playwrights are moralists.

What we like about women is sensuality, wildness, hormones. Women who make a song and dance about their intuition.

After I write, I have nothing to say. The commentary afterwards is superfluous. I write. And that's enough.

Courtesy is a waste of time; it weakens you and undermines you.

Yvan's a very tolerant bloke, which of course, when it comes to relationships, is the worst thing you can be. Yvan's very tolerant because he couldn't care less.

Rejection is a blade to the heart. It's the worst kind of pain.

Someone asked me when is my birthday?The poet inside me replied, "My birthday is on the last day of the year, It's 31st December my dear!

Bluestar's coming on patrol? Watch out for flying hedgehogs!

Age merely shows what children we remain.

Literature is not a sack race. There aren't real winners and losers in the Republic of Letters.

If the English educated neglect, as they have done and even now continue, as some do, to be ignorant of their mother tongue, linguistic starvation will abide.

I remember my mum explaining to me what adoption meant when I was still at primary school. 'Son,' she said to me, 'you didn't grow under my heart, you grew in it'.

When you stop being so afraid of failing you become much more free to succeed

Not one false man but doth uncountable evil.

We will reduce the White House staff by 25 percent