She had such unusual eyes. They made me think of the seaside, and so I called her Ocean, and could not have told you why.

You need more than a beginning if you're going to start a book. If all you have is a beginning, then once you've written that beginning, you have nowhere to go.

Anywhere that I can't check my email is a good place to write!

There's a glorious sense of freedom in comedy, just allowing myself to tell jokes, allowing myself to interrupt myself and tell old African folk stories that I made up - or didn't - and Jamaican stories.

I believe in absolute honesty and sensible social lies.

I'm willing to make a fool out of myself in public. I'm also willing to make those mistakes that you're going to make the first time you go out, so hopefully the next time it will be better.

Pain shared, my brother, is pain not doubled but halved. No man is an island