This is the trouble with cheating: there are no acceptable rules, or laws. It could be a smile, or dancing to a song that you considered to be indefinably 'ours'. It can feel like cheating to go to a restaurant that you used to go to with someone else. Keeping photographs of exes can infuriate, like retrospective cheating.
Being able to afford everything you desire is not, by any means, the worst thing that can happen to you. But, depressingly, and more profoundly, neither is it the best.
Bald isn't like being ethnic or disabled. Everyone can and will make jokes about it and expect you to laugh good-naturedly, which you will.
Nature gave you your look and there's only a limited amount you can do about that, but what you wear is the skin you choose for yourself.
The truth is a mayor can actually do very little to alter the course of a huge city run by the free market that is home to banking - the engine room of capitalism.
So much of life is not about whether you're good or bad, or right or wrong, or can afford or not afford - it's just about timing.
I can tell very quickly when people are lying.
When Americans come to London they usually say how much they love the history, the tradition, the splendid tumpty-tum of things whose very repetition has become their point.
I am sure of this: that no one can write a book which children will like unless he write it for himself first.
Bores can be divided into two classes; those who have their own particular subject, and those who do not need a subject.
