Wit can be beautiful, because it expresses and distills an idea.
My parents were marvelously educated people.
As children everyone thinks their family is weird and they're upset by the weirdness of their own family.
I get an urge, like a pregnant elephant, to go away and give birth to a book.
One of the reasons I love the online world is that although that exists in abundance you can choose absolutely which part of the online world you want to live in. You can make your own kingdom in that sense.
They are just 100 per cent bear, whereas human beings feel we're not 100 per cent human, that we're always letting ourselves down. We're constantly striving towards something, to some fulfilment.