There's only one thing more boring than listening to other people's dreams, and that's listening to their problems.

I don't know why women are so mad about flowers. Personally, they leave me cold. I prefer trees.

Barry Kent's father looks like a big ape and has got more hair on the back of his hands than my father has got on his entire head.

I'm spectacularly disorganised. I wrote my latest book in seven different notebooks scattered throughout my house.

I married two weeks after my 18th birthday, far too young, and by the time I was 23 I was a single mother of three small children, Sean, Daniel and Victoria, living in a prefab house.

Most social problems could be helped or prevented if people had more money and practical advice.

I think it's essential for comic writers to have a hate figure, a despot, a regime to react against, and I think Thatcher was perfect for me, I loathed everything she stood for.