I've owned more sofas than I've had husbands. Both sag in the end, but I generally fall out of love with the furniture quicker than the men.

Caesar salad is one of my favourite lunch foods. You can shovel it in and talk at the same time.

The day of the wedding went like these things generally do, full of anxious moments interspersed with black comedy.

Sometimes I've looked at a plate of food and wondered if it wouldn't look better as a hat.

Far too many women are hesitant, and remain trapped in jobs for which they are over-qualified or paid beneath their worth.

Stress is a designer ailment that many of the so-called afflicted suffer from with pride.

I hate reality shows like Big Brother and I'm A Celebrity. I'd rather watch a goldfish bowl.

Esther Rantzen, like me, is an egomaniac of the highest order.

Blogs are for anoraks who couldn’t get published any other way.

I must be the only person of my age who doesn't have a bloody gong. They are so common in show business.

Television reflects our society in a more accurate way than at any time in the past.

When you do things with love, it is a song of your heart.

It takes courage to fail.

The first step in the acquisition of wisdom is silence, the second listening, the third memory, the fourth practice, the fifth teaching others".

read thousands of books and I will power myself with knowledge. Pens and books are the weapons that defeat terrorism.

We have not strength enough to follow our reason so far as it would carry us.

I have no talent when it comes to pianos or guitars or any of that, even karaoke. For karaoke, I have to be wasted to get up there and sing.

One slumber finds another.

By most accounts, Aristide is the most popular figure in Haiti.

You can always draw as well as you know how to. I flatter myself that I feel more than I express on canvas; but I know that is not so.