A writer only begins a book. A reader finishes it.

Curiosity is, in great and generous minds, the first passion and the last.

I don't know how I ever really lived before my husband came into my life.

EQUAL RIGHTS and FREE DISCUSSION will be fearlessly advocated and maintained. Sectarian dogmas or tenets will be investigated and compared.

There is no suffering like a child's, terrified by a secret which it dare not for some reason disclose.

People tend to relax when they're off camera. That's when they should be working the hardest.

If you wisely invest in beauty, it will remain with you all the days of your life.

A lot of people have a lot of talent. What people don't have is the will to work hard enough to develop that talent fully.

Yes, I have played a blitz game once. It was on a train, in 1929.

I'm a truth seeker. That's what I do every day on the show - put out the truth. Some people don't like it, they call it sensational, but I say life is sensational.

I guess the most interesting thing that people think is I'm English [because of The Mighty Boosh].

I admire natural, untouched beauty.