Here is my recipe for a mood enhancer. Take a friend, preferably one with a really annoying fringe and outsize pants, and when she is rambling on swiftly, push her into a ditch and run away.

Your soul shines through even if you haven't got mascara on

When girls walk home we put on lippy and makeup. We chat. Sometimes we pretend to be hunchbacks. But that is it. Perfectly normal behavior.

Jas, you are three hundred miles away. You would have to have nunga-nungas the size of France for Jock to be able to rest his hand on them.

A nod is as good as a wink to a blind badger.

I will not have him in my brain;there is no room for anyone else in the cakeshop of agony. it's crowded enough in there already.

I've never had anyone say they love me before. Libby lobes me, that is true, but there is something a bit menacing about the way she says it.

What in the name of Hitler's panties and matching bra set was she talking about?

He who laughs last laughs the laughiest.

Dad has brought me a cup of tea in bed this morning! I said, 'Vati, why are you waking me up in the middle of the night? Are you on fire?

Mum said, "It is the thought that counts." And I said, "I know, which is why I am ringing the authorities right now. Anyone who thinks like she does should be locked up out of harm's way.

Love enough to end a war.

Here and there, plumes of dark smoke reach into the sky like the fingers of a drowning man reaching up for the last time.

Being alone in nature is another way to feel the joy of beauty - and oneness with a greater whole.

Only an idiot would doubt my return

Pay your people the least possible and you'll get from them the same.

I saw these girls like Sherilyn Fenn and Lara Flynn Boyle that should be working now instead of these anonymous girls. They're all the same.

True creative cities produce the legacy of an idea that does what funding cannot do: to foster.

The children of any nation are its future. A country, a movement, a person that does not value its youth and children does not deserve its future.

You don't just play a part. You've got to earn the right to play it.

I want to show that you don’t have to be older to live your dreams; you can do it at any age