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

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

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.

Success means your thoughts are worthy of everyones consideration.

Life is a game in which the player must appear ridiculous.

I'm seen as a chronicler of the class system, which I don't think is unfair.

One of the great injustices in fiction is that on the whole people with romantic yearnings have romantic faces. But in real life it's not always like that.