I'm currently in an interesting correspondence with a nun about forgiveness

I've found a more personal, pagan kind of religion to satisfy the spiritual side of things.

Rodents can come across as being quite vacant in the personality stakes

The bullying was hideous and relentless, and we turned it round by making ourselves celebrities.

The English like eccentrics. They just don't like them living next door.

I didn't think of myself as a tart, but I wouldn't argue with anyone who did

However light-hearted you try to be about it, the loss of youth, and everything that goes with it, is quite a trauma.

I think Australians like a bit of vulgarity

The good thing about getting older is that, as you become less attractive, so you have less desire to go out and conquer everyone you see

Just because someone's dead doesn't mean it's over. My grandfather died more than 25 years ago, but I still think of him a lot and smell his smell.

The whole business of getting famous was good fun, but it was a long time ago.

People who concentrate on giving good service always get more personal satisfaction as well as better business. How can we get better service? One way is by trying to see ourselves as others do.

I always thought I'd like my own tombstone to be blank. No epitaph, and no name. Well, actually, I'd like it to say 'figment.'

I'm really proud of it. To me, it's a movie about character behavior and the pecking order of the pack, as well as the central character's massive survival guilt.

I watched them, thinking that little girls who make their mothers live grow up to be such powerful women.

What we don't know as a nation and as a citizen can kill us.

I'm a reader of milblogs, but as with all blogs, the wheat/chaff ratio makes it a poor investment of time.

I hate going into a room with people in it and the feeling of them staring. I find every moment excruciating.

Why in general, when you're putting together a White House staff and putting together a good one, you're looking for someone there who is not someone who's going to be heavy-handed.

In a really great way, you simultaneously try to take up as little and as much space as possible.

Friendship is a mysterious and ocean-bottom thing. Who can know the outer ranges of it? Perhaps no human being has ever explored its limits.