"In my next life, I want to be tall and thin, parallel park and make good coffee. But for now, I have lots of stuff to work out in my life, but I'll have that until the day I die. I want to write more books."

"Sometimes it's easier to show than it is to tell."

"Normally, I name my characters after famous comedians."

"I try to be careful because technology changes so much over the years. But some things don't change. Kids and parents have disagreements, kids try to manipulate, parents try to sit down with rules and regs. That part never changes."

"I was sad Jon Ronson, who wrote in the Guardian and has made a TV show for Channel 4, took against me."

"We're sad about some of the losses of members of great seniority and distinction in the Congress, and some very new members, who will no longer be serving with us."

"Even modern English people are imperious, superior, ridden by class. All of the hypocrisy and the difficulties that are endemic in being British also make it an incredibly fertile place culturally. A brilliant place to live. Sad but true."

"The very winds whispered in soothing accents, and maternal Nature bade me weep no more."