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

Sometimes the weekend gets hijacked by work, but as my mother would say, this is the right problem.

I don't think I'm an unkind person, I don't think my books are unkind, and I don't think my readers are unkind.

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!”

War makes early risers of us all.

If you're supposed to be a 'personality,' then you might as well have a personality.

To me, all success is a delightful surprise, since one can absolutely never predict it.