We've Tweeted him, we've stalked him [on] Facebook. We thought because he was so into volleyball he would have got back to us. But no luck so far.

Once more for Britain, � I said to the empty room. I might not be the Queen everyone wanted me to be, but I was intelligent and fully capable of breaking the code.

A human being is a single being. Unique and unrepeatable.

Ivory's the kind of girl who gets drunk and immediately starts slurring. I have a lot of friends like that, and I think it's because it makes me look 'more together.

A book lives as long as it is unfathomed.

Going back and forth between the press and something like The Crucible must be really crazy and intense.

The worst advice a young writer can get is "Write what you know." Imagination is more important than experience.

Your job is to facilitate and improve your capacity so that when an idea comes you can facilitate it. That's your job as a human being, in my opinion anyway.

Nothing I do is salacious or provocative or shocking for the sake of that.

I want to show kids, look where I came from. You can do it too if you believe and are willing to work hard.

The most sacred of the duties of a government [is] to do equal and impartial justice to all its citizens.