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

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.

I suppose that there is no point wasting time being lazy, though of course indolence in a divine way, actually has its advantages.

I don't need you to remind me of my age. I have a bladder to do that for me.

Because, let's face it, I do not get offered the parts that Brad Pitt has just turned down.

I have always been an impassioned advocate for the works of Shakespeare. I regard him as one of the most complete miracles of his or any other age.

P. G. Wodehouse... used, when in town, to solve the problem of the long walk to the post-office by the simple expedient of tossing his letters out of his window: his belief that the average human, finding a stamped and addressed envelope on the pavement, would naturally pop it into the nearest pillar-box was never once, in decades, shown to be unfounded.