My heroines are always virgins. They never go to bed without a ring on their fingers; not until page 118 at least.

After forty a woman has to choose between losing her figure or her face. My advice is to keep your face, and stay sitting down.

To sleep around is absolutely wrong for a woman; it's degrading and it completely ruins her personality. Sooner or later it will destroy all that is feminine and beautiful and idealistic in her.

I always wear boot polish on my eyelashes, because I am a very emotional person and it doesn't run when I cry.

You become what you think. You are what you eat.

When you get past fifty, you have to decide whether to keep your face or your figure. I kept my face.

I'll keep going till my face falls off.

The right diet directs sexual energy into the parts that matter.

Love is next to Godliness with certain safeguards.

Every woman dreams of love. When she is young she prays she will find it. When she is middle aged she hopes for it and when she is old she remembers it.

Good must triumph over evil. It usually does in life and in any case it's bad for young people to believe it doesn't.

Faith in faith' he answered himself. 'It isn't necessary to have something to believe in. It's only necessary to believe that somewhere there's something worthy of belief.

I cannot imagine a sorrier pursuit than struggling for years to write a book that attempts to appeal to people who do not read in the first place.

When I met [Robert Pattinson], he literally didn't make any impression on me. He's quiet, and he's not very outgoing.

It’s hard to forget, but forgiveness is something you do for yourself.

Lots of crime films are about work. Free Fire could have been about a company of plumbers doing pipe-fixing and stuff. But the plumbing film is not so exciting.

Boys will break your heart. Real men will pick up the pieces.

Deaf rage that hears no leader.

You came form different starts and you'll come to different ends.

I feel I have so much more to deliver than music.