We are all tempted, Mma. We are all tempted when it comes to cake.

How many of us are happy to be exactly where we are at any moment?...only the completely happy think that they are in the correct place.

But don't we often lie to people we love, or not tell them things, precisely because we love them?

Dating is really all about sex. In the conventional context, this means that the man invites the woman to go through a social encounter, the ultimate purpose of which is sexual engagement.

Any author of fiction will tell you that characters don't need to be told what to do.

I've always had a creative urge and I get immense satisfaction from creating something because it feels like I'm making sense of the world and imposing order on it.

My wife Elizabeth and I started The Really Terrible Orchestra for people like us who are pretty hopeless musicians who would like to play in an orchestra. It has been a great success. We give performances; weve become the most famous bad orchestra in the world.