Golf seems to me an arduous way to go for a walk. I prefer to take the dogs out.

[To a photographer who said, 'Look this way, love':] I am not your 'love.' I am Your Royal Highness!

When I appear in public, people expect me to neigh, grind my teeth, paw the ground and swish my tail - none of which is easy.

You have to decide at the end of the day if you can live with yourself.

[On being told by a horse show spectator that she looked like Princess Anne:] I think I'm a bit better-looking than she is.

I know my own heart to be entirely English.

I learned just by going around. I know all about Kleenex factories, and all sorts of things.

You are a pest, by the very nature of that camera in your hand.

Music gives color to the air of the moment.

Love's way of dealing with us is different from conscience's way. Conscience commands; love inspires. What we do out of love, we do because we want to.

I love the culture of grilling. It creates an atmosphere that is festive but casual.

Wealth cannot purchase any great private solace or convenience. Riches are only the means of sociality.

Nothing beats being really honest about who you are and what you need. All the rest just works itself out.

Changing is for weirdos.

Larry Summers is to modesty what Madonna is to Chastity.

Utopias are boring. Distopias on the other hand, are interesting.

I've spoken out my whole life against the idea of simply dismissing whole areas of fiction by saying it's "genre" and therefore can't be seen as literature.

Imposing limitations on yourself is cowardly because it protects you from having to try, and perhaps failing.