Being in love means being at the mercy of someone's childhood..

Almost certainly I will not tell her my intentions this evening or tonight. I will put it off. Why? Because words are actions and they make things ha….

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….

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

What a quality of innocence people have when they don't expect to be harmed..

Dear God, teach me to be careless..

I'm always writing. I'm an obsessive. It's not because I'm a disciplined person. It's because I'm crazy about it..

Fundamentalism is dictatorship of the mind.

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..

Secrets are my currency: I deal in them for a living. The secrets of desire, of what people really want, and of what they fear the most. The secrets ….

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….

...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..

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….

If jealousy was the vindaloo of love, I'd imagined her tongue burning, and such a fire forcing her to spill her truth..

I've never had any desire to be good. I don't like goodness particularly..

Please remove your watch,' he said. 'In my domain time isn't a factor..

I'm interested in philosophical psychology, people like Nietzsche, Freud, Alcan, Foucault, Derrida..

My father was a civil servant, so having a regular job, being respectable is a big deal for me. Respectable in the sense that I support my family. Th….

No amount of promises can guarantee love.

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….

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