It’s degrading being routinely subjected to a battery of medical tests to ensure I continue to deserve a place in this new world.

I plant a gentle parting kiss on his lips, our strategy is well and truly screwed at this stage anyway. We barely lasted a day.

The Suitors Ball is fast approaching and it's a nasty reminder that my suitor will be chosen shortly. I feel sorry for the poor unfortunate guy, whichever one of them it happens to be.

Are you in any pain? (Ariana Skyee)Only my heart. (Cal Remus)

I would cry if I could, but instead I just feel my heart rip apart.

He’s a lovely guy, but there’s no spark between us whatsoever. It just goes to show, that even with all their fancy assessment tools, the government can’t legislate for chemistry.

It seems like I have lived a lifetime in just one day.

And when a man that old takes up money-hunting, it's like when he takes up gambling or whisky or women. He aint going to have time to quit.

Men's loyalty to their women dies hard - and almost always too late. ("I'm Dangerous Tonight")

The role of the artist is to be the witness of life, timbuktu.

Every creative act draws on the past whether it pretends to or not. It draws on what it knows. There's no such thing, really, as a creative act in a vacuum.

I just loved playing the mean girl. When you're not like a character, it's kind of fun to play.

A language that doesn't have everything is actually easier to program in than some that do

When I notice a rear wheel overtaking me, I know I'm sitting in a Lotus.

The fun of working on the road means stealing from hotels. I've been doing it for so long, I have a set of towels from the Ark.

Any suggestion that the most open and diverse society on the planet is likely to in any way resemble Russia requires a suspension of common sense that is pretty hard to deal with.

I fight not for myself, I fight for the audience.