You don't sit down and write a wish list about the person you are going to fall violently in love with. It just doesn't work like that.

You don't need a Harvard MBA to know that the bedroom and the boardroom are just two sides of the same ballgame.

You are who you are when nobody's watching.

As I say I don't want to kill myself, I just wouldn't mind dying.

Estate agents: like them or loathe them, you'd be mad not to loathe them.

The only reason people do not know much is because they do not care to know. They are incurious. Incuriousity is the oddest and most foolish failing there is.

People who can change and change again are so much more reliable and happier than those who can’t

Love in all eight tones and all five semitones of the word's full octave.

Wine can be a better teacher than ink, and banter is often better than books

Nothing in this world is at it seems. Except, possibly, porridge.

All the big words -virtue, justice, truth, ...- are dwarfed by the greatness of kindness

In the pursuit of goals, you cannot give up anytime you feel uncomfortable.

Once in the racket you're always in it.

Giving birth is like taking your lower lip and forcing it over your head.

Why is a door-knob deader than anything else?

I don't have a deep link with England like, say, Jonathan Coe or Hanif Kureishi might demonstrate. For me it is like a mythical place.

Girls could do most things as well as boys, and some things better.

We have millions of unemployed and cannot afford any more immigration. Where are they supposed to live? It is not viable.

Life is a tightrope between two errors: generalizing the wrong particular and particularizing the wrong general.