I think powerful women don't care whether or not they're liked.

Long after the bomb falls and you and your good deeds are gone, cockroaches will still be here, prowling the streets like armored cars.

With publicity comes humiliation.

The older a woman gets, the more invisible you become.

Most of my life is just spent lying in bed. I mean, it's enough pressure to write the words. Do I need to use the additional energy exerted by sitting up?

The novel is never really in the first draft. The novel really happens in the revisions.

Whether I'm critically well received, whether or not I sell books - of course it becomes progressively harder to get them published - nevertheless, it's what I do, every day.

Why would I want to read something about somebody that's just a really nice, decent person who overcomes terrible trials? That's not how life is to me.

I feel like I sort of missed the eighties. At the time, we didn’t know we were having fun, which is probably the way it always is.

I was like a social worker for lepers. My clients had a chunk of their body they wanted to give away; for a price I was there to receive it.

I think the sixties must have been quite a lot of fun.

Because I’ve got a lot more terms of endearment to use. Honey pie. Sugarplum. Bread pudding."“Why are they all high-calorie foods?

You will never get to a new place by walking an old path.

Breath is breath.

God sends Children, Parents help them grow up.Teachers teach students, An academy makes them Professionals.

Make your paradise here on earth, your own little paradise

Is that the longest fifth set ever? It was? So, no, I've never played one longer than that!

In a stage play, you kill the leads and they come out for a bow - in a movie, they don't come out for a bow, they're dead.

Lord Chancellor, did I deliver the speech well? I am glad of that, for there was nothing in it.

If people are talking about my weight cut all the time and are telling me how skinny I like, you have to respect the audience. You also have to respect all of the fighters who do this.

It doesn't take long to play with those guys. They're so good, they really help you out in all areas of the game and make it easy on you.