I remember I did think, 'Wouldn't it be nice if Mr Right moved in next door?'

Multitasking? I can't even do two things at once. I can't even do one thing at once.

Why do you put your self esteem in the hands of complete strangers?

Who wants to be normal when you can be unique?

I drink a lot of Diet Coke and belch. I've been known to use the ''f'' word.

I've never had white teeth. To be honest, I've never been told to do any of those horrible things - get your teeth whitened or your nose straightened.

Imperfection is underrated. Perfection is overrated.

You just have to do what suits you, and it doesn't matter if you don't look like everybody else. Be you. That's our gift and we've got to celebrate that.

I don't think kids have a problem with death. It's us older ones who are nearer to it, that start being frightened.

Wear what you feel comfortable with. People say nasty things about what I wear in the street. I'm always in worst dressed lists, but you just have to dress for yourself and ­nobody else.

I'm drawn to emotionally damaged characters because there is more to unlock.

In fact, one could argue that the skill of the fiction writer boils down to the ability to exploit intensity.

Fierce praying was a way of finding entrance and prologue into my own writing.

As for my next book I am going to hold myself from writing it till I have it impending in me: grown heavy in my mind like a ripe pear pendant gravid asking to be cut or it will fall.

When I do documentaries, my best information ends up on the cutting-room floor. People have trouble dealing with sexual honesty.

No deep and strong feeling, such as we may come across here and there in the world, is unmixed with compassion. The more we love, the more the object of our love seems to us to be a victim.

Set me as a seal upon thine heart, as a seal upon thine arm: for love is strong as death.

God did not burden the United States with a diversity of backgrounds, ideas and religions, He blessed America with them.

Martha Stewart is now under house arrest. So she'll go to her $40 million 153-acre estate. So she's going from the big house to an even bigger house.

The US-led invasion of Iraq was an illegal act that contravened the UN charter.

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