There was a time when no difficult subjects were ever aired in the 'Lady', and sadly, life isn't like that.

Of one thing there is no doubt: if Paris makes demands of the heart, then Munich makes demands of the stomach.

It's very hard to self-motivate without someone standing over you snarling, ready to hurl the chalk at your head at the slightest slackening.

If there's anything worse than being 16, it's having parents visibly reliving their own teenage years in your anguished presence.

Without my Johnson trademark mop of yellow hair, I think I would be nothing.

I talk to bankers, distributors, marketing people. I used to sit at home in my tracksuit bottoms, and the real excitement of my day would be going out to get a copy of Private Eye and a latte.

Of course I'm naughty. I've always had to compete for attention, you see.

In Germany, salads are assemblies of ham and mayonnaise, not trendy tossed leaves.

When I'm called unkind... that really cuts to the quick. You can say anything else that you like about me.

Don't worry about never having time to write. Just write what you can in the time you do have and give yourself a big clap on the back, followed by a double latte and a blueberry muffin.

I do not think that having children - I have three teenagers - keeps you young. The reverse. It thrusts you into a full-frontal confrontation with your own all-too-obvious maturity.

I'm going to lie down. Please wake me up in a couple of don't.

Never again will I underestimate the greatness inside of me just because of the hate and limited thinking inside of others.

I have a cycle that is not particularly cool, but it's a cycle: trash myself to reward myself.

I always end up taking people that are morally ambiguous.

Forgive us as we forgive- we are offered forgiveness on no other terms. To refuse it is to refuse Gods mercy for ourselves.

Seek perfection of character. Be faithful. Endeavor. Respect others. Refrain from violent behaviour.

The fate of the Empire rests on this enterprise. Every man must devote himself totally to the task in hand.

Not for the first time, I wished both of us could just say what we meant. But that, like so much else, was impossible

Never answer anonymous letters.