Though with Bridget Jones's Baby: the Diaries, I'd like to make it clear that I did not ever get pregnant by two men.

It is horrid to smirk.

When someone loves you it's like having a blanket all round your heart.

It occurred to me that if Africa needed us, sometimes we needed Africa a great deal more.

I like you very much. Just as you are.

It is proved by surveys that happiness does not come from love, wealth, or power but the pursuit of attainable goals.

Sink into morbid, cynical reflection on how much romantic heartbreak is to do with ego and miffed pride rather than actual loss

One must not live one's life through men but must be complete on oneself as a woman of substance.

No one is thinking about you. They're thinking about themselves, just like you.

Tom has a theory that homosexuals and single women in their thirties have natural bonding: both being accustomed to disappointing their parents and being treated as freaks by society.

It's rather fun writing a female spy, because she has so much more kit. Bond never carried a hair dryer or a makeup bag. And he certainly didn't wear an uplift bra.

She was bendable light: she shone around every corner of my day.

Curiouser and curiouser, " he says. I smile at the reference. Carroll was totally a witch. The secrets of our world are written into that book.

Are you free or were you sold a facsimile of freedom?

How could I think the brief years were enough To prove the reality of endless love?

I'd love to star in a television series of my own. I love the idea of living with a character for a number of years, watching him grow.

The search for happiness is more important than the need for pain.

The more sophisticated we get, the more advanced our buildings and vehicles become, the more vulnerable we are.

Our constitutional liberties shall not be sacrificed in our search for greater security, for that is what our enemies and all enemies of freedom and democracy hope to achieve.

I download music just like anybody else, but it's a weird relationship when you're a musician.

The road ahead may be difficult for all Australians, but we need not be divided on partisan lines.