War makes early risers of us all.

When you are desperate to get someone who isn't all that interested in you, you lay siege as hard as you can.

I always like to arrive at the airport early to enjoy breakfast and lounge about so that when I get on the plane all my travel fever has disappeared.

It's the gloomy things that need our help, if everything in the garden is sunny, why meddle?

Leave three Englishmen in a room and they will invent a rule that prevents a fourth joining them.

Sometimes it is quite surprising, the emotional intensity of it. I was in NY one day, in Barnes and Noble, and I could see this woman following me around and after a bit I stopped and said 'Hello' and she just looked at me and said: “PLEASE LET EDITH BE HAPPY!”

I think it's always a challenge to adapt something from one medium to another - a novel into a film or a play into a movie or whatever.