My mum worked as a secretary for Christian Dior. She looked like a movie star.

I'm happy to be at home with the kids, in my flannel pajamas; that's a treat.

If you're in love with someone maybe you can show it too much.

I am a survivor and not a victim. Life isn't perfect. When you get a knock, you have to get up, dust yourself down and get on with it.

Kindness Day should be everyday of your life.

I do have cellulite. I have it everywhere. From the neck down!

I'm Catholic and Mum taught me the comfort that you can get from going to church. But I'm an a la carte Catholic. I love all the pomp and ceremony of it.

Everything in life is a lesson and I have learned from each marriage. Yes, I've made mistakes but every experience is a learning curve.

I am a happy person and I choose to be a positive person. I think some people think my life has been tragic and there have been these horrible dramas but things really have been, and are, fine.

Dad was the first man I fell in love with. He was a very funny man. He grew up in the East End of London and was very dynamic, and I understood why my mother fell in love with him.

All I want is to be more famous than anything or anyone.

Writing a novel is like driving a car at night. You can only see as far as the headlights but you can make the whole trip that way.

I think it's true that we shouldn't apply a strict litmus test and the most important thing in any judge is their capacity to provide fairness and justice to the American people.

I'd read things, like people criticizing me. But no one likes to read stuff about that, and probably the main thing that was getting to me was me mum's illness.

I have not been so much pushed by winds as pulled forward by the force of my decisions.

I just want to fly under the radar, because when you start to make yourself into a big deal, that's when you get shot down.

One of my last few vices is coffee, but with a spot of almond or soymilk, it's never tasted better!

Be dispensers of God's grace, not controllers. Don't be the Holy Spirit's customs agents.

The only form of fiction in which real characters do not seem out of place is history. In novels they are detestable.

The times that tried men's souls are over-and the greatest and completest revolution the world ever knew, gloriously and happily accomplished.

It was [Kanye West] who spoke, and then we met and recorded some songs. After, you know what it is: we all bump like crazy.