I adore food and always have.

It makes me upset, if not angry, when people assume that there can be no morality without a religious framework. If there's a moral framework without all that religious stuff, it's more valuable.

I swim more or less every day.

I try to be classic without being mumsy.

I've never particularly liked the idea of looking back; I'd rather look forward

I look at myself objectively and in a way I see myself as a commodity. Your name becomes somehow outside yourself. Now, when I'm at home being Mrs. Scarfe, that's when I'm most myself.

I know some actresses who used to be older than me who are now younger than me - I don't know how they do it.

I think one wants lots of different lives.

I think all good writing is a struggle. To write as well as you feel you can has to be a struggle, almost by definition, because you could always improve.

We get a lot of overseas people wanting to order cakes.

Listening to my regular favourites - Mozart, Beethoven, Brahms and so on - I always feel, quite misguidedly, that nothing can be too bad if such beauty and brilliance exists in the world.

The connections we make in the course of a life--maybe that's what heaven is.

Run first, ' Shane said. 'Mourn later.'It was the perfect motto for Morganville.

But the beauty is in the walking -- we are betrayed by destinations.

Mothers can forgive anything! Tell me all, and be sure that I will never let you go, though the whole world should turn from you.

The time will come that gold will hold no comparison in value to a bushel of wheat.

I am a simple man and I want simple answers.

As the same fire assumes different shapes When it consumes objects differing in shape, So does the one Self take the shape Of every creature in whom he is present.

Curiosity engenders both science and scandal.

After you produce you can select. you can curate. you can censor. But for now, have bad ideas, lots and lots of bad ideas.

I have so many goals.