I ask Laurie it it's possible to get trained fish. Lindsay says this is how we know I've never produced a movie.

Its unfortunate and I really wish I wouldn't have to say this, but I really like human beings who have suffered. They're kinder.

Being disabled should not mean being disqualified from having access to every aspect of life.

I think books are like people, in the sense that they'll turn up in your life when you most need them.

I hate the way market forces try to separate us out in to the appropriate demographic - basically in order to sell us things. We need to find stories that we can enjoy together, not separately.

Any problem, big or small, within a family, always seems to start with bad communication. Someone isn't listening.

I was brought up by very witty people who were dealing with quite difficult things: disease and death... I was brought up by people who tended to giggle at funerals.

Maybe I don't take myself so seriously any more. And I don't care how I'm judged. I'm past all that.

You can't imagine what satisfaction can be gotten from throwing a pie into someone's face.

When husbands and fathers leave, their wives and daughters tend to value themselves less as a result.

During an election, it's like they're doing my job: they're going around banging the drum for their party and selling their movie. You know, it's the same thing.

I don't believe in an 'all-about-me' culture. It's about the group.

I often think it's unfair to the listener and "too easy" to just choose one tempo while I make and decide the songs.

There are enough women to do the childbearing and the childrearing. I know of none who can write my books.

They can only set free men free... And there is no need of that: Free men set themselves free.

We also call for a freeze on the bank accounts of those countries, including our allies, with due warning.

I'm interested in social commentary.

Laughing is not the first expression of joy. ... A person laughs in idleness, for fun, not for joy. Joy has nothing, nothing but the old way of tears.

To me, the fans just seem so loyal, above anything, which is amazing. What more can you ask for in a fan?

The saddest thing about ephemerals was that their little lives rarely held time enough for love.

You know my wife, she's 6 ft 1 she can beat anyone up.