Delightful, tragic, gloriously elegiac and riddled with puns-Close to Hugh is just like life, only so much more beautiful for being art.

Flowers are an easy, eloquent expression of love at a time when words can seem clumsy and inadequate.

No one expects the doormat to stand upright, shake itself off, and amble down the street to seek its own happiness.

Literary readings aren't going to shake their reputation as the added-fibre of our entertainment diet until the people who organize and participate in them snap out of this mentality.

I just have to trust that the story is going to shake out in such a way that's going to be palatable to readers.

Dating, like almost every other male-female interaction in present-day society, is based on outmoded and unequal social roles and expectations.

Anger is one of those emotions that doesn't follow the letter of the law. It speaks before it thinks. It rears up on its hind legs and charges.

When you're not sure your anger is justified, the thing to do is ask yourself exactly where it's coming from.

Living in the moment works sometimes, but when alone, it clouds over your memories and dreams, and those are what I need to survive.

Tea is just an excuse.i am drinking this sunset, this evening.and you.

Being judgmental is a form of attack keeping others off balance.

Happiness flourishes where there is happiness...

My first, big, silly role at school was as Arthur Crocker-Harris in Rattigan's 'The Browning Version,' where my job was to make school-masters' wives weep with recognition.

I think most people don't react well to being screamed at. It's counterproductive.

I had my appendix out when I was 11, and that was the last time I was in a hospital. That was a one-night deal. So I've spent basically one night in a hospital.

Your days pass like rainbows, like a flash of lightning, like a star at dawn. Your life is short. How can you quarrel?

I also have to support my speaking voice by sitting in a way that engages the diaphragm in the way I would for singing.

I kind of took inspiration from my time in Paris. That was kind of the real time when I discovered European fashion. It's stuck with me since University.