My mum died about three years ago at the age of 101, and just towards the end, as she began to run out of energy, she did actually stop trying to tell me what to do most of the time.

I learned a lot of things about literature talking to people at the publishing company. Did you know that about 90 percent of celebrity autobiographies are ghostwritten?

The great thing about Florida is you - each city's about two hours' drive from everywhere else.

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.

When you're being stalked by an angry mob with raspberries, the first thing to do is to release a tiger.

Other people, you know, put a latex rubber on, you know, to become sexually excited. There's so much I don't understand.

I love having different cultures around, but when the parent culture kind of dissipates, you're left thinking, 'Well, what's going on?'