The best interviews like the best biographies should sing the strangeness and variety of the human race.

But perhaps this is what goes wrong with long marriages--you state your opinions, your likes and dislikes, at the beginning and then forget to mention when they change" (135).

I don't want to give a cool appraisal of Jeremy Irons. I just want to boil him in oil.

I have freedom. But freedom means total selfishness. It means nobody cares much what you do.

What did I get from Simon? An education - the thing my parents always wanted me to have.

I just think I'm fairly aggressive.

Hurting a softhearted caring person would please you but loss is yours

I don't have deal breakers, " Alan said. "I look on tempests, and am never shaken.

The next time you see a spider web, please, pause and look a little closer. You'll be seeing one of the most high-performance materials known to man.

Honor is like an island, rugged and without a beach; once we have left it, we can never return.

It's good to remember the unburied dead and the uncollected rubbish. Most of it can now be seen on the Labour benches in the House of Commons.

I try to know what I need to know. I make sure to know what I want to know. (Nero Wolfe)

A portrait isn't a fact but an opinion - an occasion rather than a truth.

My other life keeps me calm and grounded and normal.

Personally I'm not a feminist, as I can't stand puritans.