I don't know what people who I've never met think about me. Some have written horrible things, some have written nice things - but I'm proud of the f….

Kingsley watched her disappear from the room, wondering if his heart would break. Logic informed him that of course it would not. The heart was no mo….

Artists don't create society, they reflect it.

The internet was supposed to liberate knowledge, but in fact it buried it, first under a vast sewer of ignorance, laziness, bigotry, superstition and….

My parents were secular. I am an atheist..

If I did things for the money, I'd have done adverts in the 1980s, when I was hot enough to be offered them, and 'Police Academy 6,' which I was aske….

I resent the creation of a world in which beauty is a reminder of what we're losing rather than a celebration of what we have..

I try hard not to preach, but I get carried away, which is a mistake, but it's a risk worth running..

I'm lucky because the strongest emotion I have ever felt is being in love, and that definitely informs my writing..

I'm easy to work with, not a pushover, but I respond to criticism and find it inspiring..

I see dull people as projects ... to be reformed.

Comedy will always be central to what I do, it's just an instinct for me, but I am a writer and always have been..

Any closer would unravel her mystery, the very thing which made her so truly beautiful...It was her mystery that he adored. He was in love with every….

My advice to anyone adapting a novel is that once they've read it and learnt to understand it, then they must throw it away and never look at it agai….

The worst thing about being a great power is when you're not one any more. It takes centuries to get over it..

I exercise hard and the reason I do is so that I can earn the things I like to consume..

I loved writing 'Two Brothers' more than anything else I have written. It's the first book I've written that I've always known I wanted to write. Hav….

I did not vote Labour because they've heard of Oasis and nobody is going to vote Tory because William Hague has got a baseball cap..

The earth only has so much bounty to offer and inventing ever larger and more notional prices for that bounty does not change its real value..

I find the fact that billionaires are quoted as if the fact that they are billionaires gives them some kind of wisdom is outrageous..