She was a beefy young woman and, whatever piece of music she was playing, it was definitely losing.

It's tough at the top. It's tough at the bottom. But in between you could use them for horse-shoes.

Plot exposition that can be gently wound out by the authorial voice and internal monologue of a character in the length of a page has to be delivered in a matter of seconds on the stage.

There's a lot of science in it, and as Slartibartfast [in The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy] said: 'I am a great fan of science, but I cannot do a quadratic equation.' I've never, ever been able to do one. I remember one occasion at Warwick University, when Jack and Ian were at their wits' end because I couldn't get it. I felt totally ashamed.

Happiness is not the natural state of mankind, and is never achieved from the outside in.

TV people in the UK... I'm getting on a lot better with them.

There are millions of chords. There are millions of numbers. And everyone forgets the one that is a zero. But without the zero, numbers are just arithmetic. Without the empty chord, music is just noise.