I am full of gratitude for my life - and for this house.

I've found a more personal, pagan kind of religion to satisfy the spiritual side of things.

Rodents can come across as being quite vacant in the personality stakes

I'm currently in an interesting correspondence with a nun about forgiveness

The bullying was hideous and relentless, and we turned it round by making ourselves celebrities.

The English like eccentrics. They just don't like them living next door.

I didn't think of myself as a tart, but I wouldn't argue with anyone who did

However light-hearted you try to be about it, the loss of youth, and everything that goes with it, is quite a trauma.

I think Australians like a bit of vulgarity

The good thing about getting older is that, as you become less attractive, so you have less desire to go out and conquer everyone you see

Just because someone's dead doesn't mean it's over. My grandfather died more than 25 years ago, but I still think of him a lot and smell his smell.

If we could imagine, while we live them, to what mundane moments nostalgia manages to stick itself...

In the fleeting light she saw the meadow, dotted with stunted hawthorns, their twisted limbs dense with red berries, and then a shape: achingly familiar, child-sized, shockingly still.

In the grueling light that passed for day...

I'm still friends with all my exes, apart from my husbands.

Are we Christians in this country really changing our hearts, or do we just believe in a change of heart...?

Seems to me God made a big mistake when He failed to put handles on watermelons.

The worst situations in the world always start with the words, 'trust me.'

Music is not sound. Music is using sound to organize emotions in time.

The great thing about fiction is that you can start off by telling the truth, then start making stuff up like crazy whenever you feel like it.

What I'm trying to do is be as honest as I can, and I don't normally do that.