My mother converted to Catholicism to marry my father.

Sometimes the weekend gets hijacked by work, but as my mother would say, this is the right problem.

I have derived enormous confidence from being a husband and father.

If you are lucky, you have your moment. But it is never more than a moment. You have to enjoy it while it lasts.

Leave three Englishmen in a room and they will invent a rule that prevents a fourth joining them.

Vulgarity is no substitute for wit.

To me, all success is a delightful surprise, since one can absolutely never predict it.

What is a week-end? Maggie Smith in Downton Abbey.

Success means your thoughts are worthy of everyones consideration.

Most of us don't want to be outsiders.

If there's one thing I don't look for in a maid, it's discretion. Except with my own secrets, of course.

Any good marriage is secret territory, a necessary white space on society’s map. What others don’t know about it is what makes it yours.

When everything gets too much, give some away

If you’re not good, I’ll burn your—”“Yeah, I know.” MeShack strolled to his bedroom. “You’ll burn my balls off.

I'm curious by individuals that embrace half a story so they can justify how incomplete they feel about their own self worth.

You know, I don't feel fifty. I feel not a day over forty-nine. It's incredible. I'm bouncy, I feel bouncy.

It's the unknown that draws people.

All artists are of necessity in some measure contemplative.

Tradesmen regard an author with a mixed feeling of terror, compassion and curiosity.

The music that I listen to the most is probably world music, whether it's from African or South America or all over.

I wrote fiction during my entire childhood, from age 4 to 18, and started writing plays when I went to Yale and Oxford.