My mind turned by anxiety, or other cause, from its scrutiny of blank paper, is like a lost child–wandering the house, sitting on the bottom step to cry.

But what is more to the point is my belief that the habit of writing thus for my own eye only is good practice. It loosens the ligaments. Never mind the misses and the stumbles.

...to use the little kick of energy which opposition supplies to be more vigorously oneself.

I have felt that odd whirr of wings in the head.

Yes, I deserve a spring–I owe nobody nothing.

Mistress Mary Quite Contrary

Venice, the most touristy place in the world, is still just completely magic to me.

As ever with modern Britain, we are let down by a vast, over-manned, over-funded, hidebound, obstructive, box-ticking and incompetent bureaucracy.

The overwhelming majority of our nation - intellectuals, academics, theologians, the greats, and the leadership - are in favor of getting the sanctions removed.

I started modeling at 14. It's simple. You respond to what the photographer wants and wear other people's ideas. I got bored with it, though, so I went to university.

Focus on building the best possible business. If you are great, people will notice and opportunities will appear.

If I were constantly worried about death, I couldn't function. After a while, if your life is more or less constantly in peril, you come to a point where you accept the possibility philosophically.

An amicable divorce is like a ventilated condom; it just doesn't work.

Beauty comes from within; a greedy, avaricious, gossipy woman cannot be beautiful.

Most species do their own evolving, making it up as they go along, which is the way Nature intended.