Time to tidy up your life. Time to start again.

Whatever happens tomorrow, we had today; and I'll always remember it

The true writer, the born writer, will scribble words on scraps of litter, the back of a bus tickets, on the wall of a cell.

You start out wanting to change the world through language, and end up thinking it's enough to tell a few good jokes.

I think probably I'm quite sentimental; I like big emotional stories, I like being moved by things, but I think I'm very embarrassed by sentiment. I'm very embarrassed by corniness.

The fact was I loved my wife to a degree that I found impossible to express, and so rarely did.

I work three days at home, and two days in the British Library or the London Library, just to get out of the house and hide from the children.