When a person’s drunk, they talk sense or they talk none; and you can listen to them or not. It’s the same as when they’re sober.

You might suspect that language derives from the intricacies of cooperation and compromise but I illuminate it like this: cooperation and compromise always have to follow disagreement so maybe the first words of any tongue are always likely to be ‘fuck off’. I say »

And it was a quiet suggestion, like the sound of London in the dead of night when you can close your eyes and take a deep breath and you listen to the silence and you still know exactly where you are. I say »

They were not all rich or powerful or happy but at least they took the starring roles in the imagined movies of their own lives. I say »