The hardest thing about writing is writing.

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

There is something called the rapture of the deep, and it refers to what happens when a deep-sea diver spends too much time at the bottom of the ocean and can't tell which way is up. When he surfaces, he's liable to have a condition called the bends, where the body can't adapt to the oxygen levels in the atmosphere. All of this happens to me when I surface from a great book.

That's another thing about being a certain age that I've noticed: I try as much as possible not to look in the mirror.

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

Some people pretend to like capers, but the truth is that any dish that tastes good with capers in it tastes even better with capers not in it.

I'm not one of those people who think you should go grey and that there is some virtue in looking wrinkly if you don't feel like it. If you do, great. If you don't, just my only caution is watch out. There are a huge number of wrinkle creams that do nothing for you.