I do enjoy fashion - a lot of runway clothes are pretty unwearable, but if moderated, the trends can be worn by just about anyone.

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.

Learning to let go is not giving up! It is simply passing the burden to a better fighter, so you can fight another day. (God)

I was sixteen, still my mother’s prisoner, the night I became the whale.

Earth to earth ashes to ashes dust to dust in sure and certain hope of the resurrection.

I don't think lyrics need to be deep - just write whatever comes out of you. You don't need to find intense meaning in everything.

Stop inviting walls into wide open spaces.

The eternal tide flows hid in Living Bread. That with its Heavenly Life too be fed.

What I don't know for sure is what's next for me - and I don't mind that. I know for sure that whatever happens will be interesting and will challenge and excite me.

In the big leagues everyone has ability. It always comes down to mind games. Who ever is more mentally strong-wins.

It is essential that there should be organization of labor. This is an era of organization. Capital organizes and therefore labor must organize.

There is no way of writing stories that I haven't done.