“But the reality is that chav-hate is a lot more than snobbery. It is a class war. It is an expression of the belief that everyone should become middle class and embrace middle-class values and life...”

“If we want kids with 'aspiration', we need to give them something to aspire to.”

“As a non-believer, I want the atheist case to be made. I want religious belief to be scrutinised and challenged. I want Britain to be a genuinely secular nation, where religious belief is protected...”

“She was crushed by society like a mosquito fending for its unborn young”

“What if the mosquitos are converting the pesticide to a weak form of pyrethrums, a poison to people?”

“If you want romance, fuck a journalist.”

“That's the thing with keeping up appearances, Rose; people will do anything to get one and anything to keep one.”

“I had never seen the end of day and the beginning of the night greet each other. We were caught in the loveliness between the two. A House Like a Lotus”