The Art of Vermeer must have been there on the morning of creation.
I believe in joy, but I believe in the flip-side, agony.
I'm glad I am a woman who once danced naked in the Mediterranean Sea at midnight.
Alcohol is a very patient drug. It will wait for the alcoholic to pick it up one more time.
My only true harmony lies deep within my soul, wherever that is. I know that somehow I am in tune with the universe.
My anger made me drink as an escape from reality, a way of forgetting. But you don't know when the medicinal effect ends and the poisoning begins. . . This is my sixth year of sobriety. Overcoming alcoholism has been my greatest challenge and my greatest reward.
I can choose to accelerate my disease to an alcoholic death or incurable insanity, or I can choose to live within my thoroughly human condition.
I always say to people if you want to see what Britain looks like, watch Gogglebox. It's brilliant and funny and warm and clever.
I've seen [Lalla Ward] episodes of "Doctor Who. " They're good, at least partly because the scripts were written by Douglas Adams.
The other day at a drive-through, I reminded the teenage girl serving me that she forgot my drinks. She looked at me, hissed, rolled her eyes, and then took her sweet time getting me the sodas.
I don't write a quick draft and then revise; instead, I work slowly page by page, revising and polishing.