I like to wake up each morning and not know what I think, that I may reinvent myself in some way.

You don't need a Harvard MBA to know that the bedroom and the boardroom are just two sides of the same ballgame.

You are who you are when nobody's watching.

As I say I don't want to kill myself, I just wouldn't mind dying.

Estate agents: like them or loathe them, you'd be mad not to loathe them.

The only reason people do not know much is because they do not care to know. They are incurious. Incuriousity is the oddest and most foolish failing there is.

People who can change and change again are so much more reliable and happier than those who can’t

Love in all eight tones and all five semitones of the word's full octave.

Wine can be a better teacher than ink, and banter is often better than books

Nothing in this world is at it seems. Except, possibly, porridge.

All the big words -virtue, justice, truth, ...- are dwarfed by the greatness of kindness

How can you be nervous? Don't you see? We're in a library.

There is a big difference between motion and action. Just because you get out of bed doesn't mean you are making progress. Taking action requires decisiveness, dedication, and clear direction.

Beauty is an influence based off of judgment.

Sunday is the Academy Awards. Every time an actor says, 'I didn't expect this,' Ruth Bader Ginsburg will do a shot.

The creative person prefers the richness of the disordered to the stark barrenness of the simple.

I think if you work as an actress and are supposed as a character to be in love with some actor, then to some extent you do have to be in love with him.

Never, ever get satisfied; keep the carrot in front of the horse.

The farms you live in will be yours for free. When mineworkers strike, it will be to complain that we are giving them too much money.

Keep Right on to the End of the Road

If I had not existed, someone else would have written me, Hemingway, Dostoyevsky, all of us.