If you want to be seen, you have to put yourself out there - it's that simple.

Mankind can be very magnanimous, given the chance.

Today everything must be easy and it mustn't take time ... ready meals. Powdered hot chocolate and instant coffee ... Living takes time. We need to give each other time.

I believe I could commit a crime. We all can. It depends on which situations we find ourselves in. In despair, I would steal food if my children were hungry.

If we don't believe in the Devil, we won't be able to recognize him when he suddenly shows up.

Successful people are not interesting. I feel for the losers. That's where my heart lies.

I'm not a good crime writer. I'm not good with plots... so I have to do something else.

It is hard work to give life to new characters every single day. It is not as if I am God. I am just a tired, middle-aged woman trying to keep going.

So many bad things have happened to them that they can't trust the good things. They have to shove them away before someone can get it back.

Incidental, all of it, of course, but this was what this city bestowed that novels couldn't: not what you needed in order to live, but what made the living worth doing in the first place.

A good film is when the price of the dinner, the theatre admission and the babysitter were worth it.

The '80s was all about this idea that women could have it all. You could have a career, and you could have a husband, and you could have children.

our bones like stems into the sky will forever cry victory

The art feeds my mind and soul and the job pays my bills. Finding the balance can be a challenge, but I am very fortunate for it.

I was determined that no British government should be brought down by the action of two tarts.

Poetry is, above all, an approach to the truth of feeling.

And I suggested to change very simple way to Olympic Games, in one competition, two different levels. Separate from, until sixteen, and after sixteen years old.

I've learned to deal with stress much better now, things don't bother me in the way that they once used to.