Perhaps he was a wicked man, as Robert Falcon had said, but he had the saving grace of laughter, could even laugh at his own fatal predicament, and he had been so full of life.

Lucy, you're as transparent as a pane of glass, and there's not a speck of guile to be seen in you. Yet in a way you're a mystery to me.

A blissfully united family shines much brighter than most of life's greatest blessings.

So there’s a freeing up that happens when I can go into that storytelling mode...It isn’t about how much sense you make, it is about how compelling you are. (interview)

Don't discuss your relationship problems with friends. Your zombie problems are another story entirely.

I've been writing all my life. Even though I didn't have sort of careerist aspirations as a writer, it was very much my identity.

The only boring people I know are bored people.

British Beatitudes! ... Beer, beef, business, bibles, bulldogs, battleships, buggery and bishops.

The rose is born evil ... but it is pink.

Your father, Jo. He never loses patience, never doubts or complains, but always hopes, and works and waits so cheerfully that one is ashamed to do otherwise before him.

I think, generally, the flawed anti-hero is much more interesting than the normal hero, and that's really what we're talking about here as it relates to outlaws or renegades.

There are women who have completely transformed my view of fashion and if I hadn't shown them I would never have arrived at this point in fashion, you see.