Love is the only thing that keeps me sane.

Will you lie to me and promise to read them? Books need to be read. The pages need to be turned.

Yes, I hate it when people call me a 'national treasure'. It takes away your bite and makes you feel like a harmless old golden Labrador.

I married two weeks after my 18th birthday, far too young, and by the time I was 23 I was a single mother of three small children, Sean, Daniel and Victoria, living in a prefab house.

Most social problems could be helped or prevented if people had more money and practical advice.

I don't know why women are so mad about flowers. Personally, they leave me cold. I prefer trees.

Every time I start a new piece of work, I spend a long while under the duvet thinking I can't do it.

There's only one thing more boring than listening to other people's dreams, and that's listening to their problems.

I think we take it for granted that if you are with your husband after 30 years, then he is the love of your life.

I am from the working class. I am now what I was then. No amount of balsamic vinegar and Prada handbags could make me forget what it was like to be poor.

8.45 a.m. My mother is in the hospital grounds smoking a cigarette. She is looking old and haggard. All the debauchery is catching up with her.

Is a tree any less beautiful because it has lost a limb?

If your actions don’t reflect your goals… and your behavior doesn’t reflect your company’s vision… then you’re not a leader

There is a weak person because he is weak ... but there is a strong person who was once weak!

The Great Change is when humankind accepts its role as part of the natural order of the universe instead of its role as a cancer

No other species lives with regret over past events, or makes deliberate plans for future ones.

I work on drawing as a final product.

He wanted paper and something to write with, some way to sustain a thought, to place it in the world.

The quieter you can make your mind, the more you've invoked your will.

Throughout American history our presidents have invoked our nation's founding fathers. This is particularly true of recent presidents.

One of the things I've always personally tried to stress with this band was to have some kind of visual aspect and to be consistent with it - like, not to change.