I am continually fascinated at the difficulty intelligent people have in distinguishing what is controversial from what is merely offensive.

I actually believe in denial.

If you're looking for monogamy, you'd better marry a swan.

The desire to get married, which - I regret to say, I believe is basic and primal in women - is followed almost immediately by an equally basic and primal urge - which is to be single again.

Too few journalists become screenwriters. I say to all the would-be screenwriters: Become journalists. And I’ll say to working journalists: Do not stay journalists. Become screenwriters.

No one is more romantic than a cynic. I do think that you don't become cynical or 'unsentimental' unless there's a core of romanticism or sentiment that's had a few chips nicked into it.

In my sex fantasy, nobody ever loves me for my mind.