"We forget that our bodies are the most valuable, precious thing we have and take that miracle of life for granted."

“The best effort of a fine person is felt after we have left their presence.”

“I write and rewrite and rewrite and write and like to turn in what I think is finished work”

Source : Interview with Robert Birnbaum, themorningnews.org. July 6, 2006.

“Acting is not my favourite thing. I don't like wearing costumes and wigs.”

“What shall I say? I must tread a fine line between glaciosity and friendlinosity. With just a hint of 'you don't know what you are missing, my fine-feathered friend.”

“Gymnastics is my whole life, and I dream of going to the Olympics and being a world champ.”

“I've had people ask me in interviews what it's like to have money, but that's not how it is. I have a middle-class life. I have a room in London but not a house, nor a BMW.”

“For me writing is foremost a mode of thinking and when it works well, an act of discovery”

“Trust him to have his bitter politics Against his unacquaintances the rich Who sleep in houses of their own, though mortgaged. Conservatives, they don't know what to save.”