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

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.

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.

The whole business of getting famous was good fun, but it was a long time ago.

Shyness is only the effect of a sense of inferiority in some way or other. If I could persuade myself that my manners were perfectly easy and graceful, I should not be shy

That process by which you become a writer is a pretty lonely one. We don't have a group apprenticeship like a violinist might training for an orchestra.

If we want to be loved, we are looking for a support system. If we want to love, we are looking for spiritual growth.

I should not be judged by a standard that's not applied to everyone else.

The creator gives no heed to the critic unless he becomes a barren inventor.

My favorite thing to do is put my headphones on and cruise around the old neighborhoods.

I used to spend a lot of time just thinking about myself, thinking that the party started when I showed up.

Whatsoever is good; the same is also approved of God.

We can talk about it all we want. But there comes a time when you just have to get it done and quit talking about it. There's been a lot of talk here and not enough doing.

But Time, unfortunately, though it makes animals and vegetables bloom and fade with amazing punctuality has no such simple effect upon the mind of man.