I'm a car freak, I never usually have one for more than a year before I change it.

You can't beat a nice glass of Chardonnay after a really long, hard day.

I love being in my kitchen. I'm quite a traditional cook, but I make a mean omelette. I'd like to open an omelette restaurant. Cheese and ham, chilli and mushroom, whatever you fancy, I'll rustle up.

I try to look on the sunny side of life. If something dramatic happens to me, I always try to recount it as a comedy tale, rather than a victim's story.

I'm far from perfect, but I don't think I'm ugly.

The low points are there for a good reason. I think they can teach you a life lesson.

Someone once bought me loads of clothes from a charity shop - and sent them to me in a black bin liner. That was weird. I went through it and it was full of bizarre outfits like Abba costumes.

I'd really like to find out if the queen burps or trumps.

I love standing under a steaming shower when I'm tired in the morning. I don't really get a chance for baths.

I talk too much when I'm nervous.

Stop writing what you know and start writing what you want to know.

Those who say they would rather fight to the death than be raped are fools. I would rather be raped a thousand times. You do what you have to.

I don't like toast... the black stuff gets in my teeth.

While in El Paso, I met Mr. Clinton Burk, a native of Texas, who I married in August 1885.

Success is the continuing achievement of becoming the person God wants you to be and accomplishing the goals God has helped you set.

There is no point in being a responsible member of society, nor is there any point in being an irresponsible member of society. Both are very defined descriptions of selfhood

Jails and prisons are the complement of schools; so many less as you have of the latter, so many more must you have of the former.

Where any one body of educated men, of whatever denomination, are condemned indiscriminately, there must be a deficiency of information, or...of something else.

I wanted to be a star, not a gallery mascot.

I only included things that everybody likes, like violence, flowers, children, women, friendship and death.