I've always found women more loyal, more disciplined, less neurotic, more hardworking. I just think they're perfect colleagues. Whereas, God knows, I've dealt with plenty of neurotic men.

I've always found women more loyal, more disciplined, less neurotic, more hardworking. I just think they're perfect colleagues. Whereas, God knows, I've dealt with plenty of neurotic men.

People who get on at school are the ones who play by the rules, and no one's going to get far in later life playing by the system.

When I am fishing, I think quite a lot about the fish, but I also think about the book I'm writing.

Lots of us when we're children believe 'oh well, if the world knew us as we really are, they'd know what wonderful, clever, brilliant, charming people we really are.'

If you can't get a job as a pianist in a brothel, you become a royal reporter.

We're taking part in a divine comedy and we should realise that the play is always a comedy, in that we're all ultimately ridiculous.