My own diagnosis of my problem is a simpler one. It’s that I share 50 percent of my genome with a banana and 98 percent with a chimpanzee. Bananas don’t do psychological consistency. And the tiny part of us that’s different - the special Homo sapiens bit - is faulty. It doesn’t work. Sorry about that.

— Sebastian Faulks

Oh, the sweetness of giving in, of full surrender.

— Sebastian Faulks

One thing about London is that when you step out into the night, it swallows you.

— Sebastian Faulks

People wonder why you choose certain subjects to write about. The truth is: you don't really. They choose you

— Sebastian Faulks

. . . She read with undifferentiated glee. . .

— Sebastian Faulks

She was so beautiful I had to move away.

— Sebastian Faulks

That sense of happiness just out beyond my reach - I'm not sure if I'd grasped that exactly, but I'd got something close to it, contentment maybe, or at least a functioning routine with regular rewards.

— Sebastian Faulks

The best thing is the combined effect of nicotine with alcohol, greater than the sum of the two parts.

— Sebastian Faulks

The end-of-summer winds make people restless.

— Sebastian Faulks

The past was suddenly rushing in on me in a way I found hard to fight.

— Sebastian Faulks