I get really upset seeing my friends who are mums crying because they feel like they're not good enough. Clever, confident, kind young women all going, 'I'm ruining my child's life.

Sometimes I wake up in the middle of the night and wonder how I do these things. I can embarrass myself so badly that I literally get a hot prickle down the back of my neck.

Domestic goddesses have infiltrated everybody's lives and raised the bar way too high.

Bridget Jones has a lot to answer for.

My dad always said, 'Don't worry what people think, because you can't change it.'

If I were to say you are crazy, what part of that would you find unacceptable?

It takes time and energy, and if I'm working, then I'd rather flop in front of the telly than put on a tiny dress and work out how to get myself to God knows where. I mean, lazy some would call it.

In a crowd do not lose your individuality, and in your individuality do not lose the crowd.

There was a photograph of Trout. He was an old man with a full black beard. He looked like a frightened, aging Jesus, whose sentence to crucifixion had been commuted to imprisonment for life.

Acceptance is an active response to a temporary situation

There is only one secret to great writing and that's great writing.

If there were such a thing as an inter-city thieving contest, Ankh-Morpork would bring home the trophy and probably everyone’s wallets.

Forgiving means to pardon the unpardonable Faith means believing the unbelievable And hoping means to hope when things are hopeless.

Kiss me and you will see how important I am.

Perhaps the best hope for the future of mankind is that ways will be found of increasing the scope and intensity of sympathy.

I am hugely proud to have played for Ireland.

I am a very linear thinker, so I write beginning to end. I write hundreds of pages per book that never make it into print