"Have you ever been in love? Horrible isn't it? It makes you so vulnerable. It opens your chest and it opens up your heart and it means that someone can get inside you and mess you up."

"Things need not have happened to be true. Tales and adventures are the shadow truths that will endure when mere facts are dust and ashes and forgotten."

"There's a glorious sense of freedom in comedy, just allowing myself to tell jokes, allowing myself to interrupt myself and tell old African folk stories that I made up - or didn't - and Jamaican stories."

"You can take for granted that people know more or less what a street, a shop, a beach, a sky, an oak tree look like. Tell them what makes this one different."

"I think that in today's world, by nature, we are all self-centered. And that often leads to selfishness."

"I think if you're at the point where you're popular enough to sell your wedding photos to OK! Magazine then you don't need the money."

"I usually make up my mind about a man in ten seconds, and I very rarely change it."

"It is a subtle truth that reason is the torch that illuminates the dark corridors of superstition — an essential principle for the reflective life."