To be creative you must create a space for yourself where you can be undisturbed... separate from everyday concerns.

The really good idea is always traceable back quite a long way, often to a not very good idea which sparked off another idea that was only slightly better, which somebody else misunderstood in such a way that they then said something which was really rather interesting.

It's not the despair, Laura. I can take the despair. It's the hope I can't stand.

I just think that sometimes we hang onto people or relationships long after they've ceased to be of any use to either of you. I'm always meeting new people, and my list of friends seems to change quite a bit.

England is a fairly envious little country and it's embodied in the press. They don't like anyone being more distinguished than they are.

I think it takes a long time, as you get older, to realize just how crazy the world is, just how ridiculous it all is.

You can lead a horse to water but you can't make him enter regional distribution codes in data field 97 to facilitate regression analysis on the back end.