Because I was a shy and awkward child, I used humour to deflect attention. It was a controlling mechanism. Because I could use it to control my image.

At my core, the glass isn't half-empty, it's not even what I ordered in the first place.

I'm not frightened of a bit of silence.

I will absolutely say that whatever job I was asked to do, whatever schedule I was asked to work, it is never going to be as hard as looking after a child.

My advice to you is please don't ever sit in your room and lock yourself away because you don't think you're good enough.

I'm naturally quite lazy, and I actually think I'm lax about my career. None of my work defines who I am.

I'm an incredibly negative person, so any form of success is only ever going to be a relief to me and set my default position back to neutral.

Although I was a shy child, I was also a bit flamboyant.

I've realised I need a gnawing, nagging, anxious doubt when I wake at 4 A.M.

It's never been a point of reference to look to a man. It's not always a good thing, I suppose, but I think independence is always preferable to dependence.

To me, it seems a dreadful indignity to have a soul controlled by geography.

Trust leads to intimacy, which leads to healing and meaning. We can only be intimate to the degree we can make ourselves vulnerable. But when we open our hearts, we can get hurt.

I do have ADD and in real life, I'm all over the place and can hardly focus. If we were talking for, for more than an hour or so, I'd start drifting off... I can't sit still too long.

It has sustained me in moments of success and in moments of disappointment. Without it, I'd be a different person. And without it, I doubt I'd be here today.

I never yet heard of a useless thing that was not ground out of existence by evolution sooner or later. Did you? And pain gets needless.

When I wake up, my pillow’s cold and damp with tears. But tears for what? I have no idea.

If someone's trying to intimidate me, male or female, I don't respect them enough to be intimidated.

There's a certain part of the contented majority who love anybody who is worth a billion dollars.

We are astonished at thought, but sensation is equally wonderful.