The truth is, if anyone saw my home life, I'm pretty sure it would look like other families' around the world. There's a lot of juggling to be done.

I'm horrified of lobsters. And shrimp and lobsters are the cockroaches of the ocean.

Hey, we all have our fear. Mine is bugs and lobsters!

When I was young, I wanted to do something more low-key, like become a drummer in a rock band.

I really believe in the environmental movement right now - it only takes a little effort to make a big difference.

I always loved family holidays, and I had this vision and dream as a little girl of having a big family of my own.

I just don't think there's a sunscreen that gives you enough protection.

I go to Saint Barth in the French West Indies for two weeks each year. That place is amazing. Amazing people, beautiful beaches, great wine, wonderful harbors... It's incredibly romantic.

I've always been a person that believes in eating often and eating smart, clean meals.

Whatever I've got going on, I play music to accompany me.

Most of the time I believe in letting kids go ahead and make their own mistakes - maybe even get a little hurt - and learn from them.

Bush spoke of another principle, that a just war must "support a just cause." In the Persian Gulf, he said, "our cause could not be more noble." What nation has ever said its war was not noble?

The scene is France. The theater is the world.

Vampire Willow Rosenberg: "In my world, we have people in chains, and we can ride them like ponies.

The British secret service was staffed at one point almost entirely by alcoholic homosexuals working for the KGB

All empires become arrogant. It is their nature.

There is no before. There is only now, and what comes next.

Hard work never brings fatigue. It brings satisfaction

There is no use getting angry at something that has already happened.All you can do is your best to check it doesn't happen again.

Writing, of course, it's not all in your head. Not talking about the 'manual' act of typing here either, but that, when your fiction's really working, your whole body's involved, and then some.

What you think and do affects all other people.