I'm the slowest reader in the world, because I perform it all in my head.

My father was in the civil service. I can remember standing in a bus shelter in the pouring rain, and that we were allowed candy floss at the end of the holiday if we had behaved.

I'm told leather drives men up the wall. I like wearing it because it because it feels nice.

Apart from anything else, I find boots are too hot except in wintry weather. At home I usually wear a sweater, shirt and slacks.

I've travelled around the UK a lot recently and have discovered that I really like trains. If you're in the quiet carriage, nobody can get hold of you and you can relax.

South Africa is the most beautiful country I have been to. Canada is also hugely underrated.

I hate everything about airports from getting there to taking off.

I'm very fond of Norfolk. My husband came from there and the kids love it. Devon is beautiful, too.

Most of the Bond girls have been bimbos. I have never been a bimbo.

No More Avengers! There's nothing new to get out of it - I want to go forward, not backward.

Be gentle with all people. We all have different struggles.

Strange secrets are let out by Death Who blabs so oft the follies of this world.

Anyone who has lived through it, or those who are now living through it, knows that caring about an addict is as complex and fraught and debilitating as addiction itself.

if you listen too hard to the technology, your ear goes deaf to its implications.

Even if a bodhisattva investigates the highest wisdom, one is not a proper bodhisattva unless one applies skillful means for the benefit of other sentient beings.

The elevator to success is out of order. You'll have to use the stairs... one step at a time.

Young African - millennials really love Barack Obama.

Akismet started on a $70 dollar-a-month server. Anyone can scrape together $70.

For a while, I was only being sent fat-girl parts. Seriously? Sometimes I feel like I'm making some kind of radical statement because I'm a size 6.

Like the birds of the sea, men come from the ocean-the ocean of the soul. How could this bird, born from that sea, make his dwelling here?