I don't get star-struck at all.

All I want to do really is get married and be a matriarch.

A Local Government Stationery Store is something to behold. It's like walking through the back of a cupboard into a really dull Narnia.

I always carry a pair of scissors around with me to cut things out of magazines.

I would love to have been around in the Keystone Studios days.

I wasn't hugely popular at school. In fact, I was bullied at school.

When I'm a brunette, it's four times harder to hail a taxi. Then I go blonde again, and suddenly there are taxis everywhere.

I'm sorry to say I'm very lizard-like. My skin is dry, so covering my face in greasy antioxidants is a better alternative.

If you get 10,000 guys to put their ideal woman into a computer, it still comes out looking like Angelina Jolie.

I can make a virtue of slapdash. Slapdash can give you courage.

I definitely used to write a lot at school. Comic poetry and drawings about people.

You must be a servant if you want to be great in life

What is a quote? A quote (cognate with quota) is a cut, a section, a slice of someone's orange. You suck the slice, toss the rind, skate away.

It's hard to give up the being together with someone.

Heaven is no permanent abode of morons even though they may gain entry by sheer virtuosity of their deeds."Ashoka Prasad(Hegelian Lecture)

I take mentoring very seriously and I am on the board of an organization called Girls Write Now, where we match teen girls and writing mentors because it changes their lives.

It is a lovely oddity of human nature that a person is more inclined to interrupt two people in conversation than one person alone with a book.

What is life, but the gentle effacement of a tree shedding its leaves?

seizing the swift logic of a woman, Curse God and die.

Fear is not life-giving enough to sustain itself. We can move in the direction of fear only so long before it brings us to our knees, or to our end.

And the wind upon its way whispered the boughs of May, And touched the nodding peony flowers to bid them waken.