At the deepest level people are madder than they want to believe. You will find that they fear being eaten, and are alarmed by their desire to devour….

Harvey [Weinstein] didn't want to release [MY SON THE FANATIC]; he held it for two years because he wanted a happy ending, although I don't know what….

All the same, my depression and self-hatred, my desire to mutilate myself with broken bottles, my numbness and crying fits, my inability to get out o….

Like you, she will have been with other people, but I've got a feeling there's something between you..

Anna Karenina is just a story about a woman falling in love with a bloke who is not her husband. Its gossip, rubbish - on the other hand, its the dee….

Why do people who are good at families have to be smug and assume it is the only way to live. … Why can’t they be blamed for being bad at promiscuity?.

...I love 'yes.' It's practically the most interesting word of all, don't you think?" Like a hinge opening a door outward. Yes, yes, yes..

England has become a squalid, uncomfortable, ugly place ... an intolerant, racist, homophobic, narrow-minded, authoritarian, rat-hole run by vicious,….

If you get depressed, you can be stuck for months; if you have an analyst, you at least have a chance of getting out of it faster..

Children, who have yet to learn our ways, are notoriously promiscuous in their affection. They’ll sit on anyone’s knee..

Dear God, teach me to be careless..

Falling in love was simple; one had only to yield. Digesting another person, however, and sustaining love, was bloody work, and not a soft job..

No amount of promises can guarantee love.

Soon we will be strangers. No, we can never be that. Hurting someone is an act of reluctant intimacy. We will be dangerous acquaintances with a histo….

These days everyone was insisting on their identity, coming out as a man, woman, gay, black, Jew - brandishing whichever features they could claim, a….

I can't sleep with you tonight, baby, my head's all messed up, you've no idea. It's somewhere else and it's full of voices and songs and bad things..

You don't stop loving someone just because you hate them..

But in love each moment is magnified, and every gesture, word and syllable is examined like a speech by the President..

You can't spend your life beating yourself up for something that happened yesterday. You die if you don't follow your desire..

Our lives can only be lived forward and understood backwards. Living a life and understanding it occupy different dimensions..

Watching Jamila sometimes made me think the world was divided into three sorts of people: those who knew what they wanted to do; those (the unhappies….