The horses are all characters, all personalities. Some you get along with, some you don't, some might take a bit longer.

My dad can be pretty critical sometimes.

I don't mind a big fascinator. I think there is more scope for artwork in a fascinator rather than a hat.

Virtually everything that gets printed about me is wrong anyway, so it doesn't really matter what you say.

I was always told from the hat-makers that you should have your hair up because it shows the hat more. It feels more 'done' when your hair is up.

I hate having my picture taken.

I don't think about the media.

I love hats; I love putting hats on. They are artwork. You can always go out and find a dress to wear for some occasion, but there are not that many occasions you can wear a hat.

I'm not a princess anyway so I find that quite weird to be labelled as one.

I'm an affectionate person.

Unfortunately in sport it's either good or bad. You've got to take the highs and the lows.

Avoid a wasteful life and make each unit of time count

Memory, of course, is unreliable, often evil, but it is the source of our identity."--Tennessee Williams

You Can Not Me Honest To Others, If You Are Not First Honest With Yourself.

After a time he fell asleep, and some unsteady fairies had to climb over him on their way home from an orgy.

The only time the white man is brotherly toward you is when he can use you, when he can exploit you, when he will oppress you, when you will submit to him.

How can women be in the image of God if God cannot be imaged in female form?

I'm a novelist at heart. How's that? And that's how I make my living, is I write novels.

This extraordinary metal, the soul of every manufacture, and the mainspring perhaps of civilised society. Of iron.

I crave white on white and black, but my thoughts race in glorious technicolour, prodding me awake, whipping away the warm blanket of invisibility every time it sears to smother my mind in nothing.

A man may be as straight as an arrow, but even then he will have some critics.