It must be hard to be exclusively social and entirely friendless at the same time. - Edward St Aubyn

The tragedy was that five or perhaps ten years of decent five-day-a-week analysis could have mitigated the problem significantly.

It was virtually impossible to think of a sentence that made a positive use of that dreadful word ‘enough’, let alone one that started raving about ‘nothing’.

He marvelled again at the effect of projection: how hostile Henry had seemed to him when Patrick was hostile towards everyone; how considerate he seemed now that Patrick had no argument with him. What would it be like to stop projecting? Was it possible at all?