Plastic carrier bags floated around the traffic lights at the end of the Strand like predatory jellyfish.
My life was never intended to be one long slow descent into respectability.
Mr May, you reach a certain age when you don’t have enemies any more, just people who find you mildly annoying.
In the history of the world, no censor has ever been looked back on with respect.
I have to go, I’m being asked to join a conga line through the Byzantine reliquaries.
Over four thousand people had been killed in blackout accidents during the first few months of the war.
[In the theatre] Thanks.' He paused on the stairs. And good-Don't say it! yelled Helena. No whistling, no well-wishing.I thought you weren't superstitious.I'm not,' she said defiantly, 'but obviously...
The gap between rich and poor was not just one of wealth but of accountability.
It was a violent place in which to discover a purpose. It was a good place to forge a friendship.
I don’t think you should make so many off-colour jokes about him becoming a cuckold. You’re only getting away with it because he doesn’t know what it means.’ ‘That’s the beauty of the English language...
He’s got the charm of a rectal probe, and no social skills to speak of, so nobody wants to go for a drink with him. Let’s face it, dogs have more to look forward to in later life—at least they can go...
He kept his shirt-tail hanging out below the hem of his jacket as a white flag to motorists; over four thousand people had been killed in blackout accidents during the first few months of the war. It...
Don't talk to me about sense. i've been alive for forty-seven years and I have absolutely no understanding of human nature whatsoever. I might as well be living with a completely different species, gi...
War changes that. Crimes start to happen without reason, because people are upset, or angry, or just frustrated. Acts of violence are squalid, casual, mundane. Contrition, misery, fingerprints everywh...
Throughout history, human nature remains unchanged. The world’s oldest questions are still being asked. Medea, Oedipus, we’re not adding anything that the Greeks didn’t already know.
The first one, his first sight of a dead body. That had changed everything. A fall from innocence, and the start of a lifelong fascination with violent crime.
The fierce overhead strip lighting buzzed like the memory of a head injury.
It is said that the hallmark of a gentleman is that he is only ever rude intentionally. Arthur Bryant was no gentleman. His rudeness came from an inability to cloak his opinions in even the most curso...
How could you begin to explain London? A city once the color of tobacco and carrots, now chalky stone and angled steel, but vivid chimney pots can still be glimpsed between slivers of rain-specked gla...
Когда встретишь свою единственную любовь, все другие - просто иллюзия.