There are times when parenthood seems nothing more than feeding the hand that bites you.

We are not primarily put on this earth to see through one another, but to see one another through.

The universe is like a safe to which there is a combination. But the combination is locked up in the safe.

The satirist shoots to kill while the humorist brings his prey back alive and eventually releases him again for another chance.

I'm Irish in the mythic, romantic sense, but in the living sense, I'm a Londoner.

If you like a man and he likes you, you should get married as fast as you can. Otherwise, you both are going to change your minds. There's plenty of time for that after marriage.

I would love to do a sitcom. I see myself as an older woman, getting married, and her stepchildren, who are in their twenties, move back home.

For me, what I learned is that I went for a long time without making music when I was married, and I think some of that was because - it was a little bit unfortunate - but it didn't make sense in the confines of my marriage for me to be the musician and the writer, which requires a lot of focus and attention.