You don't have favourites among your children, but you do have allies.

You can't state difference and also state equality. We have to state sameness to understand equality.

As far as I'm concerned, if you want to find out about the last day of WWII or the roots of the Indian Mutiny, get thee to a books catalogue.

The past is always tense, the future perfect.

Protect the time and space in which you write. Keep everybody away from it, even the people who are most important to you.

Every moment happens twice: inside and outside, and they are two different histories.

Don’t romanticise your ‘vocation’. You can either write good sentences or you can’t. There is no ‘writer’s lifestyle’. All that matters is what you leave on the page.

Time is how you spend your love.

I am the sole author of the dictionary that defines me.

Don't confuse honours with achievement.

Pulchritude--beauty where you would least suspect it, hidden in a word that looked like it should signify a belch or a skin infection.

I cannot help but wonder if any parents ever actually schedule in adolescent drama on their day planners. Looks like a slow week, Sarah. I guess I can pencil in your eating disorder.

The UK crowds always have a lot of energy, and I've done some milestone shows there that I'm very proud of.

The best decision-makers are always armed with the best information and data!

My hunch is that probably men are doing more both outside the home and inside the home

Wholeness invokes balance.

Life is a photograph too, so thank you,for not removing yourself from the picture just yet.

Government funding that's coming from the United States is making a huge difference on the ground in the developing world. It's really palpable - it's making a huge difference saving lives.

Alfie was the first time I was above the title; the first time I became a star in America.

We got into a recession because the global economy went into the recession and we're a big exporting nation.

It is said that good things come to those who wait. I believe that good things come to those who work.