Looking back, I spent a lot of time sitting in pubs when I should have been perfecting my playwriting.

A lifetime’s work, to try and say one thing that’s true.

If you can write a character who is attractive but morally reprehensible, then you've got a character. It's got to feel like people I know and it doesn't just become a bag of tricks.

I'm English and love England. Whenever I'm there, I'm always seeing the present but feeling its past.

I love Stewart Lee's 'Comedy Vehicle' on BBC2. The guy is a genius.

Animals are here to live their lives. We are here to live ours. We can live well without eating them. How pathetic it is that we have to eat a life just to live our lives!

One century's saint is the next century's heretic ... and one century's heretic is the next century's saint. It is as well to think long and calmly before affixing either name to any man.

You want me to paint you?’ Genna spoke up raising an eyebrow of displeasure.‘All of me.’ James bowed his head to Genevieve and whispered the words slowly.

The past is of value only as it aids in understanding the present

I don't know why you call it morning sickness, because I was sick all day and night!

Organic Chemistry has become a vast rubbish heap of puzzling and bewildering compounds.

Thus, if the clarity of our thoughts comes through better in a play of words, then the wordplay is good. One must know how to enter the ideas of others and how to leave them.

Before I can process what’s happening, Deirdre has opened her hands and Linden has taken the ring from her and slipped it onto my finger. “Rhine Ashby,” he says. “My wife.

Somebody loves us, too - God Himself. We have been created to love and to be loved