A divorce is like a controlled explosion. Everyone on the outside is OK.

I did a lot of shopping for her in Tokyo because the colors here are very conservative. A shopaholic would have a coat in every color and lots of accessories

No human on God's earth is a nobody.

Suddenly I've had enough of all this. I've had enough of being made to feel insecure and paranoid and wondering what's going on

I don't think anyone sits down and thinks, 'I know, I'll be a chick-lit writer.' You write the book that you want to write and then other people say, 'Oh, that's chick-lit.' You say, 'Okay.' But it's not like you look around and go to a careers fair and there will be someone at the chick-lit author stand.

My voice is clotted with unshed tears.

I had gone to Oxford to read music. I had done music all my life, but when I got to college I didn't want to do it anymore.