Somehow, as a writer, you tend to use words to paper over structural cracks.

I may have looked happy but inside I was hopelessly depressed.

You don't sit down and write a wish list about the person you are going to fall violently in love with. It just doesn't work like that.

I almost once wanted to publish a self help book saying, 'How To Be Happy, by Stephen Fry: Guaranteed Success'. And people buy this huge book and it's all blank pages, and the first page would just say, 'Stop feeling sorry for yourself--and you will be happy.'

Seriousness is no more a guarantee of truth, insight, authenticity or probity, than humour is a guarantee of superficiality and stupidity.

I am a lover of truth, a worshipper of freedom, a celebrant at the altar of language and purity and tolerance.

When we understand every single secret of the universe, there will still be left the eternal mystery of the human heart.