"I loved almost everything about being a teacher, but I was an unusual teacher."

"There's a unique bond of trust between readers and authors that I don't believe exists in any other art form as a reader, I trust a novelist to give me his or her best effort, however flawed."

"Writing, I'm convinced, should be a subversive activity - frowned on by the authorities - and not one cooed over and praised beyond common sense by some teacher."

"Humour is the weapon of unarmed people: it helps people who are oppressed to smile at the situation that pains them."

"I'm so unprofessional on set it's not even funny."

"Humor is healing."

"It's good to laugh at times that feel inappropriate."