I'm lucky because the strongest emotion I have ever felt is being in love, and that definitely informs my writing.

Sympathy for victims is always counter-balanced by an equal and opposite feeling of resentment towards them.

Kingsley watched her disappear from the room, wondering if his heart would break. Logic informed him that of course it would not. The heart was no more than a muscle, a pump which distributed blood about the body.

Leaders should never, ever try to look cool - that's for dictators

If only the strength of the love that people feel when it is reciprocated could be as intense and obsessive as the love we feel when it is not; then marriages would be truly made in heaven.

If I did things for the money, I'd have done adverts in the 1980s, when I was hot enough to be offered them, and 'Police Academy 6,' which I was asked to write.

Comedy will always be central to what I do, it's just an instinct for me, but I am a writer and always have been.