My advice to anyone adapting a novel is that once they've read it and learnt to understand it, then they must throw it away and never look at it again!

My parents were secular. I am an atheist.

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.

There are lots of things I could have done for the money, but I've made a great living doing the things I want to do.

You're mugging old ladies every bit as much if you pinch their pension fund

We've all got to look at ourselves, start with yourself, that's all you can do. I believe that we can act responsibly as a group, it's just that there are vested interests telling us not to bother.

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