I think trying to be cool is the worst possible ambition - and I have never suffered from it.

You didn't wake up, your dreams just changed gear.

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

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.

I resent the creation of a world in which beauty is a reminder of what we're losing rather than a celebration of what we have.

The earth only has so much bounty to offer and inventing ever larger and more notional prices for that bounty does not change its real value.

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.