I have a very childish attitude to books - a very non-analytic enthusiasm... like Alice falling down the chute.

Joy acts like a trampoline, everything that touches it bouncing right back off it.

Life is rife with frustrations, jealousies and, on occasion, an overwhelming sense of its injustices, but it's a big mistake to let such negative sentiments rule our lives and dictate choices.

Every friendship goes through ups and downs. Dysfunctional patterns set in, external situations cause internal friction, you grow apart and then bounce back together.

In romance we feel the need to zoom in and expound on our partner's foibles in intimate detail; in friendship we tend to do the opposite, avoiding confrontation through fear, lethargy or both.

I was told that when you hit forty men stop looking at you. It's true, until you slip on a mini-skirt.

I wasn't allowed to be clever when I was young and blonde, but now I am 50 and an old blonde, I am allowed to have gravitas. With wrinkles comes wisdom.

Like cars, every relationship requires a bit of an occasional service, and fine-tuning should be compulsory.

For most of us, when our 'dreams' - I use the word with reservations - came true, and marriage and motherhood became a reality, the romcoms, like horoscopes, swiftly lost their allure.

Since so many romantic comedies vary little in their storyline, the success or failure of such movies depends largely on whether we believe in the relationship of the protagonists.

Having a baby is a disaster for your career. I don't think there's any sympathy.

A life is like a book of many chapters, some interesting, a few boring, a handful sad, one or two memorable, many joyful and others thoughtful.

The deeper the grief, the more radiant the love.

Some people would rather that you die for their beliefs than that they re-examine those beliefs.

I want doctors to treat toward health and not treat toward disease.

The social relations of capitalism have penetrated slowly into all spheres of life to make wage labour the general condition of existence only in fairly recent times.

Well, nine times out of ten when you have 2 or 3 stars in a household you have an unfortunate amount of competition that's not necessarily a healthy competition.

I pray that god answers, maybe I'll ask nicer

It's probably odd for someone to read an interview where the interviewee is worried about exposure while they're talking in an interview.

I'm 31 years old and I want to be part of a championship team before my career is over.

Real magic is not about gaining power over others: it is about gaining power over yourself.