Eventually, I manage to cheer Mum up by allowing her to go through my wardrobe and criticize all my clothes.

It is horrid to smirk.

When someone loves you it's like having a blanket all round your heart.

It occurred to me that if Africa needed us, sometimes we needed Africa a great deal more.

I like you very much. Just as you are.

It is proved by surveys that happiness does not come from love, wealth, or power but the pursuit of attainable goals.

Sink into morbid, cynical reflection on how much romantic heartbreak is to do with ego and miffed pride rather than actual loss

One must not live one's life through men but must be complete on oneself as a woman of substance.

No one is thinking about you. They're thinking about themselves, just like you.

Tom has a theory that homosexuals and single women in their thirties have natural bonding: both being accustomed to disappointing their parents and being treated as freaks by society.

It's rather fun writing a female spy, because she has so much more kit. Bond never carried a hair dryer or a makeup bag. And he certainly didn't wear an uplift bra.

But think of the glory of the choice! That makes a man a man. A cat has no choice, a bee must make honey. There's no godliness there.

White-collar crime has been marketed - billions of dollars have been put in to have us be bored by it.

The current financial crisis in the US is likely to be judged in retrospect as the most wrenching since the end of the Second World War.

We said we'd never tour ... and we'll never do a tour, I don't think - or if we do it won't be longer than about two weeks.

Each time this identity announces itself, someone or something cries: Look out for the trap, youre caught. Take off, get free, disengage yourself.

Everything that anyone respects is what men naturally excel at: fighting, accruing wealth, playing at power.

We are in a democratic society. It's our job to question.

I don't do much else but stay in my hotel room.

I live in Brooklyn. By choice. Those ignorant of its allures are entitled to wonder why.

I'm putting all my money in the Chinese toy market.