Problems are like top trumps. I have a pretty good card: Adulterous Mum. But Jordana's is still better: Tumour Mother.

Anger does not come easy to me. It is something I have to encourage, like a greyhound in second place.

For my last birthday, Dad bought me a pocket-sized Collins English Dictionary. It would only fit in a pocket that had been specially designed.

I would never say snog. I would say osculate." She looks at me as if to say: why do you exist?

Depression comes in bouts. Like boxing. Dad is in the blue corner.

I would never say snog. I would say osculate.” She looks at me as if to say: why do you exist?

Are we making a bomb?" "This is a trust exercise, like in drama, " she says. "Are we making a bomb as a trust exercise?

The ocean is six miles deep.

The moment one is born, the ‘saw starts cutting’. People consider it as death only when the wood breaks in two pieces [during funeral]. But it was being cut from the very beginning.

Nona was as wacky as they came.

Prayer doesn't just change things - it changes us. If we are diligent in seeking God, slowly and surely we become better people.

The inability to grasp the pathology* of our oligarchic rulers is one of our gravest faults.

If you wait until you're really sure, you'll never take off the training wheels.

A heavenly society is a harmony of many.

You can be revered for all sorts of qualities, but to be truly charismatic is rare. Elizabeth Taylor was, for me, one of those rarities.

The relationship between talent — a term loosely applied to those who work on-air — and management is uneasy, at best.

Love has more depth as you get older.

I did not have a van, or wear Birkenstocks and tie-dyes.