I thought a dignified thing to do would be to live in the country by the time I'm 50 and write books

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

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

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.

I used to pride myself on being the first in the office in the morning and one of the last to leave at night. Now, that's so dated: It's not about effort, it's about outcomes.

The key to success is to stay clean at all times.

A man doesn't have vacation problems: his boss tells him when to take them, and his wife tells him where.

If all ideas have to be bought, then you have an intellectually regressive system that will assure you have a highly knowledgeable elite and an ignorant mass.

And only the sure of foot can give a hand to him who stumbles.

I remember the first few months of the [Ronald] Reagan administration when all sorts of things happened too fast. We cannot allow that to happen.

One compliment can keep me going for a whole month.

We cannot be liberated as women in a society built on class oppression or gender oppression or religious oppression.

In football, it's the ultimate team sport. You have to have good people around you as a quarterback for things to happen.

I think women are really self-analytical in a way that men aren't.