The nature of the internet is that you don't know who is behind the screen.

I like my men to be manly, as you'll see from my books.

I want to retire very early, by the time I am 40, and go to live in Italy.

'Kane and Abel' is the best popular fiction of all time. As a kid, I wanted to be prime minister when I read 'First Among Equals.'

Abuse directed at women is always sexual or violent.

Money gives you the power to do whatever you want to do. I like the idea of being in complete control of my life.

Menshn is a play on the word mention, and in the U.S. that's how it'll be perceived. Like Tumblr or Flickr. People in the U.K. thought that I'd named it after myself.

I have no ambitions to be a cabinet minister, or prime minister. I wouldn't wish being prime minister on my worst enemy.

I'm not sure I make old bones in parliament. It's an amazing experience to have had but I can't see myself being Mother of the House.

Once you are a proper, serious law-maker, you can't break the laws you're writing.

Of course women can have it all - if they want it all. I won't hear any defeatist talk. If you just dwell on problems, you won't get anywhere fast.

Hope holds you fast like an anchor so you don't give way.

We have art in order not to die of life.

Young Dandelion On a hedge-side Said young Dandelion Who'll be my bride? Said young Dandelion With a sweet air, I have my eye on Miss Daisy fair.

Musicals don't get enough credit for being so surreal. It's like an alternate universe.

To think that the world can ever change without changes in our mental models is folly.

Life grows relative to one’s investment in it.

Across time and generations, books carry the thoughts and feelings, the essence, of the human spirit.

And may we not say, Adeimantus, that the most gifted minds, when they are ill- educated, become the worst?

A game is a series of interesting choices.

I love to have a beer with Duncan "Cause Duncan"s me mate