I like my men to be manly, as you'll see from my books.

I want to retire very early, by the time I am 40, and go to live in Italy.

'Kane and Abel' is the best popular fiction of all time. As a kid, I wanted to be prime minister when I read 'First Among Equals.'

Abuse directed at women is always sexual or violent.

The nature of the internet is that you don't know who is behind the screen.

Money gives you the power to do whatever you want to do. I like the idea of being in complete control of my life.

Menshn is a play on the word mention, and in the U.S. that's how it'll be perceived. Like Tumblr or Flickr. People in the U.K. thought that I'd named it after myself.

I have no ambitions to be a cabinet minister, or prime minister. I wouldn't wish being prime minister on my worst enemy.

I'm not sure I make old bones in parliament. It's an amazing experience to have had but I can't see myself being Mother of the House.

Once you are a proper, serious law-maker, you can't break the laws you're writing.

Of course women can have it all - if they want it all. I won't hear any defeatist talk. If you just dwell on problems, you won't get anywhere fast.

He used a minimum of words and no inflection whatsoever. It was a policeman's manner of speaking, direct and unadorned.

No achievement is too small if it leads to another.

He didn't just want her now. He needed her. He needed to feel his rhythm in her body, to see if his soul was still there in her pleasure.

[On going into politics:] My husband went to bed with Debbie Reynolds and he woke up with Eleanor Roosevelt.

The definition of definition is at bottom just what the maxim of pragmatism expresses.

Whenever I'm making music I'm always waiting for the shivers to happen - that's an important thing for me.

I was a James Brown junkie as a kid.

Jazz is like a great blues band that fell down the stairs

Daja doesn't exactly need to be tested on whether she's honorable or not.