For a novelist, the great thing about the Stone Age people is that we know virtually nothing about their beliefs - which means that I get to make it up! But it's still got to be plausible.

The great thing about gurus is not that they make you feel everybody's love. It's that they make you feel that you can love everybody.

The great thing about show business is that there's no mandatory retirement age.

It's a great thing to live in a digital age. It's convenient; it's fast.

I wanted to write a very simple story about a boy, a wolf, a girl, a bear and a forest, so I thought I might set it in the past. I didn't realise that it went back to when I was 10: I used to love the Stone Age when I was a kid and wanted to live in it, and I got rid of my bed and slept on the floor, but I didn't remember it.

The great thing about doing theater is that you get to do it better the next night.