Struggle forms character

Perhaps living in fear can drive all devils out of a person.

I like a bit of spunk in a lady

she'd played mother and wives. Women in narratives were always defined by their relations.

Also the fact that he's a guy. A girl screws around like Lotto and she's like diseased. Untouchable. But a guy can stick it to a million places and everyone just thinks he's doing what boys do.

Doomed people celebrate peace with sky bombs.

It was mathematical, marriage. Not, as one might expect, additional. It was exponential.

Mathilde and Lotto held hands in the taxi going to brunch, communicating, not speaking.

What she did not tell him balanced neatly with what she did.

When your family dismisses you, like Lotto's did, you create your own family

Don't they understand what fiction is?

Any tool can be used for good or bad. It's really the ethics of the artist using it.

In a coma, you don't dream, you just hope that someone sits with you.

People have an awful lot of problems that society has put on them and a lot to work through because of it.

Islam wants to destroy us and I want to prevent it.

I'd love to be able to write crazy epic plots. I'm working on it.

I did decide that you have to put your name about a bit, and so, although I would have preferred to have never done publicity or an interview or a fashion shoot for a magazine or a chat show.

We will burn that bridge when we come to it.

You may have the bishop pair but I have the ultimate advantage; I am the better player!

There's always something fishy about the French.

When I read about young designers selling 51 percent of their company to someone else, I cringe. I want to say, 'Don't do it - call me first.'