You're about to be the conductor on the most brilliant, runaway train in showbiz. Good luck you'll love it.

It's literally murder on the dancefloor.

The intermittent depression that had shadowed him throughout his adult life was about to envelop him once again.

She laughed, and the sound pierced his heart.

To mourn is not to fear

Your spouse should be just attractive enough to turn you on. Anything more is trouble.

Needing and getting don’t seem likely to match up any time soon... What needs doing is mine to do.

I just want to sleep, and eat, and learn about what's going on in the world.

I woke up at five o'clock in the morning with the whole first paragraph in my head. Now, this just shows what a slothful person I am: I tried to go back to sleep.

Offer them what they secretly want and they of course immediately become panic-stricken.

The ancient saying, "There is nothing in the intellect which was not first in some way in the senses," and senses being explorers of the world, opens the way to knowledge.

Every so often, I feel I should graduate to classical music, properly. But the truth is, I'm more likely to listen to rock music.