“There was [really] little difference between someone acting throwing french fries in your face and someone throwing french fries in your face.”

“Her death had a powerful impact on me I suppose because it was such an obvious shock, like watching someone for hours through a telescope advance towards you, fist extended with the intention of punching you in the face. Even though I saw it coming it still hurt when it eventually hit me.”

“I couldn't possibly have sex with someone with such a slender grasp on grammar!”

“Be led by your talent, not by your self-loathing; those other things you just have to manage.”

“To this day, I feel a fierce warmth for women that have the same disregard for the social conventions of sexual protocol as I do. I love it when I meet a woman and her sexuality is dancing across her face, so it's apparent that all we need to do is nod and find a cupboard.”

“Rebel children, I urge you, fight the turgid slick of conformity with which they seek to smother your glory.”

“When you fall in love you recognise you're not the most important person in the world, and your focus becomes another person.”