The only thing that would ever embarrass me would be something I would write that would be badly written.

I've always believed that one woman's success can only help another woman's success.

There's a saying I read recently; I painted it on the fireplace and in my studio: "Be kind to everyone you meet, for everyone is fighting a great battle." We all are. Everyone.

You breathe in and out; you breathe in and you breathe out, and you live one moment into the next moment, and then time goes by, and you find you're able to put one foot in front of the other.

I'm always in love. If it's not with a man, it's something else. I love beauty. I love the sky I see outside the window. There's so much beauty in the world.

You must always have great, secret, big fat hopes for yourself in love and in life. The bigger, the better.

If you've never had a mother or a father, you grow up seeking something you're never going to find, ever. You seek it in love and in people and in beauty.

To be happy--one must find one's bliss

I've had many, many loves. I always feel that something wonderful is going to happen. And it always does.

...that is the best-to laugh with someone because you both think the same things are funny.

I think something wonderful is going to happen to me. Maybe tomorrow. The phone can ring and your whole life can change.

The Bible, most influential book, which have the ability to transform many lives.

To expect a man to retain everything that he has ever read is like expecting him to carry about in his body everything that he has ever eaten.

Henry James claim that if you want to be a novelist you should be somebody on whom nothing is lost.

I don't know yet whether I fully believe in fate, but certain things do happen in a man's life that he cannot explain.

It has often been observed that the repercussion of poetic language on prose language can be considered a decisive cut of a whip.

This is a Budget for Britain's future to secure fairness for each child and invest in every child

Love begins like a triolet and ends like a college yell.

I don't have any premonitions. I don't have any supernatural powers. I just have a typical woman's intuition, and I go with that.

I don't think much of anything I wrote before the age of 30.

The artist deals with what cannot be said in words.