If I were to say you are crazy, what part of that would you find unacceptable?

I get really upset seeing my friends who are mums crying because they feel like they're not good enough. Clever, confident, kind young women all going, 'I'm ruining my child's life.

Sometimes I wake up in the middle of the night and wonder how I do these things. I can embarrass myself so badly that I literally get a hot prickle down the back of my neck.

Domestic goddesses have infiltrated everybody's lives and raised the bar way too high.

Bridget Jones has a lot to answer for.

My dad always said, 'Don't worry what people think, because you can't change it.'

It takes time and energy, and if I'm working, then I'd rather flop in front of the telly than put on a tiny dress and work out how to get myself to God knows where. I mean, lazy some would call it.

God save me ere I have any babies. They are grabby, clingy creatures who steal your figure and always want a ribbon or a wooden sword. And who sometimes make you die bearing them.

I long to see everything to know everything to learn everything!

English is the easiest language to speak badly.

The word Fascism has now no meaning except in so far as it signifies 'something not desirable.'

The underlying problem remains the Israeli occupation of Palestinian land and the continuing Israeli assaults against our people.

He is not in the least arrogant. The last album was written in a room in Sussex. He was like a mad professor, spending all day writing and then coming out with brilliant tunes.

One bad habit often spoils a dozen good ones.

Human beings are what I think of as "biomythic" animals: we're controlled largely by the stories we tell. When we get the story wrong, we get out of harmony with the rest of the natural order.

Specificity of time and place drop away and one starts to think about the picture, as much as what it is of.

Courage is the greatest virtue because it guarantees all the rest.