A joke was not a single-use item but something you brought out again and again until it fell apart in your hand like a cheap umbrella.

Just kidding' was exactly what people wrote when they meant every word.

When I was an actor, I worked with lots of men who had a bit of success early on, who were very good looking, who suddenly made a bit of money and who felt no embarrassment - and nor should they have done - about having a good time.

I worry sometimes that I'm a bit moralistic; always writing about men who are learning to grow up, not be so self-absorbed, selfish or badly behaved. I wonder if that's dull and liberal and wimpy? I should probably write something that celebrates wickedness.

Everything was fine, and she had the rare, new sensation of being exactly where she wanted to be.

To have had fame, even very minor fame, and to have lost it, got older and maybe put on a little weight is a kind of living death.

Dexter, I love you so much. So, so much, and I probably always will. I just don't like you anymore. I'm sorry.