...don't ask me why I know what an Edwardian smoking jacket looks like: let's just say it has something to do with Doctor Who and leave it at that.

What do you think you're doing?

Coffee arrived and the espresso was excellent, like an aromatic electric fence.

In the winter she curls up around a good book and dreams away the cold.

This is your brain on magic.

For a terrifying moment I thought he was going to hug me, but fortunately we both remembered we were English just in time. Still, it was a close call.

On the plus side, there were no rioters in sight but on the minus side this was probably because everywhere I looked was on fire.

Holy paranormal activity, Nightingale - to the Jag mobile.

The clever people at CERN are smashing particles together in the hope that Doctor Who will turn up and tell them to stop

That which does not kill us has to get up extra early in the morning if it wants to get us next time.

This I know for a fact: the reason African women have children is so that there's someone else to do the housework.

Sacred soul excites sacred spirit.

Tomorrow I will live the fool does say today itself's too late the wise lived yesterday.

Failure is a word that I simply don't accept.

Just to be working again as an actress and possibly doing TV would just be great. It's not about how big the role is.

Did God make man in a breath of holy fire, or did he crawl on up out of the muck and mire?

My father, Fred Carter, Jr., is definitely an extraordinaire.

Every once in a while, you live long enough to get the respect that people didn't want to give while you were trying to become a senior citizen.

There was a time, when I blamed my companion if his religion did not resemble mine. Now, however, my heart accepts every form....Love alone is my religion.

I try and do 2,500 words a day, every day of the year

Decide what you want to do. Then decide to do it. Then do it.