After university, I got a job sub-editing and for years I was a literary editor.

What I have always liked about Brighton is its impersonality. Since the 18th century, people have come, used the place and gone home again.

My favorite thing in the world is a quiz show, 'University Challenge,' so you can see what kind of sad person I am.

Texting is a fundamentally sneaky form of communication, which we should despise, but it is such a boon we don't care. We are all sneaks now.

If marriage really is a sacred institution, then why is the government controlling it, especially in a nation that affirms separation of church and state?

I love romantic comedies. They're for me the easiest thing to do and the most natural to do. There's nothing natural about holding an uzi hanging out of a moving van shooting at people. That's not second nature to me, thank God.

My parents have had a love marriage, so I have made it pretty clear to them that I, too, will have a love marriage.

A pity beyond all telling is hid in the heart of love.