The last time I saw African kids this excited, Madonna was at their school with a net.

Do you reckon the Queen has ever pulled a blanket up so just her head's showing and gone 'Philip, look at me! I'm a stamp!'

Music's the best thing we do as humans, isn't it? Music, I mean you flail your limbs, make you move in a way you don't understand. Or it can make you weep like a sailor's wife staring at a storm.

I lived with a guy who had OCD and I used to put Rice Krispies in his slippers before I went out. He went mental, but not before he counted them all.

Are you recycling? Are you!? You just killed a polar bear! YOU!

Kids did really well in their A levels, how do we respond? 'A Levels are getting easier, in my day you had to do fifty questions in a minute, if you got one wrong, they killed your dad!

Inner child, what do you suggest? 'I WANT A TREEHOUSE!' Anything else to add? 'FARTY NOISE UNDER THE ARM!'

'Come back here, I'm a police officer!' and I shouted back 'No you're not! You're a monster!'

I've never said flange to a monkey!

When you're three, you're into custard, and jumping.

From the makers of Alien vs. Predator: Alien vs. Pingu. K9 - stop humping the toaster!

Without language, they have no lies. Thus they have no future.

Ban privileges. The rules of the game should be the same to all players, regardless of their size, location, or any other criteria

A very small degree of hope is sufficient to cause the birth of love.

It is comparatively easy to become a writer; staying a writer, resisting formulaic work, generating ones own creativity - thats a much tougher matter.

I didn't have any interest in doing rich people's homes. I still don't.

I think initially we wanted to use the first letter of the character's name. We thought S was perfect.

I enjoy reading biographies because I want to know about the people who messed up the world.

Writing is one of the few careers for which you essentially train yourself, the other two major ones being juggling and pickpocketing.

We do not live in a centred space any more, but have to create our own centres.

I was taught from a young age that many people would treat me as a second-class citizen because I was African-American and because I was female.