People ask what the secret of a happy marriage is. If there is one, it's 'don't talk about it.

It makes me upset, if not angry, when people assume that there can be no morality without a religious framework. If there's a moral framework without all that religious stuff, it's more valuable.

I swim more or less every day.

I try to be classic without being mumsy.

I've never particularly liked the idea of looking back; I'd rather look forward

I look at myself objectively and in a way I see myself as a commodity. Your name becomes somehow outside yourself. Now, when I'm at home being Mrs. Scarfe, that's when I'm most myself.

I know some actresses who used to be older than me who are now younger than me - I don't know how they do it.

I think one wants lots of different lives.

I think all good writing is a struggle. To write as well as you feel you can has to be a struggle, almost by definition, because you could always improve.

We get a lot of overseas people wanting to order cakes.

Listening to my regular favourites - Mozart, Beethoven, Brahms and so on - I always feel, quite misguidedly, that nothing can be too bad if such beauty and brilliance exists in the world.

I died. I died and someone made a clerical error and I am in Heaven.

Decision and choices define life.

We think when there is a stimulation to create thoughts in our minds.

The responsibility of the writer is to be a sort of demonic social critic -- to present the world and people in it as he sees it and say, "Do you like it? If you don't like it, change it.

There was only so much television you could do.

In my country (Belgium), if you sit beside the phone long enough, it will ring and you will be invited to play rugby for Belgium!

It's always worth while before you do anything to consider whether it's going to hurt another person more than is absolutely necessary.

A person acting from a motivation of contribution and service rises to such a level of moral authority that worldly success is a natural result.

We are our brothers keeper. Its going to be up to all of us.

Graved inside of it, "Italy".