I didn't realize House would be the central character, more the bitter comic relief appearing occasionally. I relish his wounded nature - the lameness, the scarred Byronic hero.

Now, my mom always said two wrongs don't make a right. But she never said anything about four wrongs, and that always left me confused.

I do actually like Los Angeles. Partly because I was told I wouldn't.

People assume that I'm very highly trained, that I studied and did years and years of Shakespeare. I have no training whatsoever and I've only done one Shakespeare play at university. If people want to believe that, I'm happy to go along with it.

I would cling to unhappiness because it was a known, familiar state. When I was happier, it was because I knew I was on my way back to misery. I've never been convinced that happiness is the object of the game. I'm wary of happiness.

I have resolved to pick one novel and just read it over and over again for the rest of my life, because I cannot remember anything anymore.

She turned towards me and narrowed her eyes...narrowed them horizontally, not vertically.