I wish I could give up smoking, but it does taste so delicious.

And every book, you find, has its own social group--friends of its own it wants to introduce you to, like a party in the library that need never, ever end.

But as the years went on, I realised that what I really want to be, all told, is a human. Just a productive, honest, courteously treated human.

Batman doesn’t want a baby in order to feel he’s ‘done everything’. He’s just saved Gotham again! If this means that Batman must be a feminist role model above, say, Nicola Horlick, then so be it.

I love puffins. They are small, round gothic birds, and their babies are called pufflings.

It's just a horrible thing to keep saying to a woman, do you want a baby inside you? I mean, it's creepy.

A male feminist is one of the most glorious end-products of evolution.