My stepfather introduced me to The London Library when I was about 18; the clientele has definitely changed since then, but it is still a wonderful oasis in the middle of London.

I play Nitin Sawhney's 'Letting Go' repeatedly, nonstop. I find it transformative. I'm so glad iPods were invented so I didn't have to drive everyone around me mad with the repetition.

I always keep myself busy. I'm writing. Or I'm creating something. Or I'm doing stuff with the kids. I'm up incredibly early in the morning; I go to bed incredibly late at night.

In terms of 'Solaris,' I didn't really think about the religious aspect an awful lot. There's one scene at a dinner party, and it's discussed, but it wasn't an overwhelming theme for me.

I have a massive divide between being a competent human being and being completely hopeless, when it comes to logic.

Scribbling things down is my therapy. I filter later.

I think it's incumbent on actresses to bring something else to the part which isn't in the script.

I feel awful for women who are trying to raise kids on their own, with zero income and no fathers present - that's single motherhood.

Death is final. No it is not just final, it's worse than that, it's diminishing: the dead continue to decrease, to occupy less space.

I happen to find motherhood a very natural state, but I know a lot of other people don't.

In reality the mere privations is not enoughto cause an insurrection: if it were the masses would always be in revolt

On every level, despite differences in personalities and jobs, every single human being needs recognition and support.

I don't really go to fashion parties; they're not my scene.

My skin was the border between the world and me.

And that will increasingly dawn on people. The demand for controlling the commanding heights will grow.

Royalty is my identity. Servanthood is my assignment. Intimacy with God is my life source.

The greatest glory never comes from falling, but from rising each time you fall.

To understand is to possess the thing understood, first by sympathy and then by intelligence.

If you stop for one second and do something, everyone is happy. You pay it forward and it comes back to you twelve-fold.

My grandparents are holocaust survivors so I was really aware at a young age how horrible human beings can be to one another.