I think childhood is to everyone a lost land.

Some of the words and symbols and images from childhood will continually be part and parcel of my personality.

I did not fully understand the dread term 'terminal illness' until I saw Heathrow for myself.

We should always look back on our own past with a sort of contempt, as long as the tenderness is there - but please let some of the contempt be there.

Children can write poetry and then, unless they're poets, they stop when reach puberty.

That vision of a common culture is now simply a remote wistfulness.

The trouble with words is that you never know whose mouths they've been in.

A bad act done will fester and create in its own way. It's not only goodness that creates. Bad things create. They have their own yeast.

There's no end to the inventiveness of critics, I tell you. Because they can't write fiction, they put their impulse into their analysis of work.

Children are very cruel, yes. Of course. Children are extraordinarily cruel little creatures.

Television's Mr. Filth: that's me.

My vigour, vitality, and cheek repel me. I am the kind of woman I would run from.

One of the saddest things in life, is the things one remembers.

Since love grows within you, so beauty grows. For love is the beauty of the soul.

Surely God would not have created such a being as man, with an ability to grasp the infinite, to exist only for a day! No, no, man was made for immortality.

On account of being a democracy and run by the people, we are the only nation in the world that has to keep a government four years, no matter what it does.

Iraqis have held elections and have recently put together their government, all encouraging developments.

In the 90's action pictures were all the rage. As a woman, I was fed up with them and I initially thought that the script was just another action film dressed up as a period piece.

I happen to represent Enron here in Houston. We have many good corporate citizens here in Houston. Enron happened to have been one.

Once you decide that it is the art that is important and not how popular and well received you are, you no longer have an albatross

I actually don't miss modeling and I think the reason why is because of America's Next Top Model.