A dreamer-you know-it's a mind that looks over the edges of things.

Sooner or later every writer evolves his own definition of a story.Mine is: A reflection of life plus beginning and end (life seems not to have either) and a meaning.

Humanity does not ask us to be happy. It merely asks us to be brilliant on its behalf.

The best way to mend a broken heart is time and girlfriends.

You can't heal hurt with hate.

So be lonely, Liz. Learn your way around loneliness. Make a map of it. Sit with it, for once in your life. Welcome to the human experience.

communication is a bridge to two or more people to understand...

One sees intelligence far more than one hears it. People do not always say transcendental things but if they are capable of saying them it is always visible.

So we're considering doing a new Christmas album, because there's been Christmas episodes since then, and maybe finally do the version of 'The Most Offensive Song Ever' with lyrics intact.

I think literacy is everything.

It’s funny, I can sit through the worst horror film ever made! But even a quite good romantic comedy.

I wanted to write about looking at the world, so it's more about helping people, or persuading people, to see what is around us; both the marvellous and the terrible.