Your father always tries to see the good side of people; to find the excuse. But sometimes there isn't a good side. There isn't an excuse.
(Mom - to Lara Lington)

We're all to driven by materialism. Obsessed with success. With money. With trying to impress people who'll never be impressed.

I can never resist telling people good news. I mean, why not brighten someone else's life too?

I think a lot of people still fantasise about that first love and what might happen if they rekindled the relationship.

When I wrote my first book, 'The Tennis Party', my overriding concern was that I didn't write the autobiographical first novel. I was so, so determined not to write about a 24-year-old journalist. It was going to have male characters, and middle-aged people, so I could say, 'Look, I'm not just writing about my life, I'm a real author.'

It really is the year 2007. Which means I must be...

Oh my God. I'm twenty-eight.

I'm old.