We who were born were not witnesses to our birth: like death, it is something we are forever after trying to catch sight of.

Hope is like one of those orchids that grows around toxic waste: lovely in itself - and an assertion, if you like, of indefatigable good - but a sure sign that something nasty lies underneath.

As writers go, I have a skin of average thickness. I am pleased by a good review, disappointed by a bad. None of it penetrates far enough to influence the thing I write next.

That's writing for you: when you make space for passion, it doesn't turn up.

How can there be so many mothers in the world but so little sense of what it might be to become one?

The creativity of childhood was often surrendered amid feelings of unworthiness. So the idea that ­others are demanding to be given it back - to be "taught" - is disturbing.

Childhood, after all, is not an ending, but rather a state full of potent curiosity.

Even if they knew the truth of their own feelings, most mothers would be socially and emotionally incapable of revealing it.

Honest criticism, I suppose, has its place. But honest writing is infinitely more valuable.

Hope is one of those no-win-no-fee things, and although it needs some encouragement to survive, its existence doesn't necessarily prove anything.

People are least aware of others when demonstrating their own power over them.

I love when I can reboot people when they are being mean to others...

Surviving in business is like surviving in the jungle

The shortest way to change a radical into a conservative, a liberal into a tyrant, a man into a beast, is to give him power over his fellows.

I am a person who always feels like I am not doing the right thing because there's always so many things that need to get done.

No artist knows everything... but since every artist knows more than he can tell, all art is lying by omission.

Brunette is who I am obviously, it's my core. Blonde Kim is this alter ego; she has a vibe to her that I love.

I am just coming into my best years. This year I did new things; stretching and abdominal work.

People's expectations of what I'm capable of doing are very low. People have been used to hearing little one-liners and me play around.

Even though it's hard to believe, but people who know me really well know I'm shy. I have to go past that fear.

I love goofing around, and I love breaking people's balls. I do it off camera, as well as on camera.