Maturity: knowing where you're crazy, trying to warn others of the fact and striving to keep yourself under control.

You need a long hard day's work to reveal the logic of the craving for very bad tv and alcohol.

Work is most fulfilling when you're at the comfortable, exciting edge of not quite knowing what you are doing.

Wealth is not an absolute. It is relative to desire. Every time we yearn for something we cannot afford, we grow poorer, whatever our resources. And every time we feel satisfied with what we have, we can be counted as rich, however little we may actually possess.

To be shown love is to feel ourselves the object of concern: our presence is noted, our name is registered, our views are listened to, our failings are treated with indulgence and our needs are ministered to. And under such care, we flourish.

I know a lot about writing, but I don't know much about how other industries work. I've tried to use my naivety to my advantage.

Most of what makes a book 'good' is that we are reading it at the right moment for us.