The trouble is if you don’t spend your life yourself, other people spend it for you.

Watching Italian opera, all those male sopranos screeching, stupid fat couples rolling their eyes about. That's not love, it's just rubbish.

The Normal is the good smile in a child’s eyes - all right. It is also the dead stare in a million adults.

You never quite know what's going to strike your imagination, or something that won't going to leave you alone, not going to leave alone, and this was one for me.

Librarians as a race tend to be tedious.

Can you think of anything worse one can do to anybody than take away their worship?

Rehearsing a play is making the word flesh. Publishing a play is reversing the process.