I don't think, until you've actually lost somebody you really love, that you can go through that door that allows you to be grown-up.

There is one sure way of telling when politicians aren't telling the truth - their lips move.

Every woman feels she is too old and has missed the boat.

As we have more women in power, so the plays and the TV dramas are reflecting what's happening.

When I was little I always thought I was marked out, special, on the verge of something momentous. I used to tingle with anticipation.

For me, compatibility is a sense of humour, being able to laugh together; that is very important.

The gym is where I get my chill-out time. I try to go six days a week, but when I'm working, that goes down to about three.

I think you have to relax about aging. What else can you do?

I did try fillers once. Don't ever have fillers because when your cheekbones are high, it's chipmunk time.

So many roles for women demand that you make the audience fall in love with you or sympathise with you.

I hope to start enjoying flirting again when I'm 70, like my mother did.

Jewels can be replaced, cousin. Independence, once lost, cannot.

Hiding the truth is as evil as feedingthe lie grow tough muscles.

Every face of life demands endurance.

Cynicism is intellectual dandyism.

George Bush Junior [George W Bush] was a religious fanatic, and Tony Blair wasn't far behind in a way.

All we need is a meteorologist who has once been soaked to the skin without ill effect. No one can write knowingly of the weather who walks bent over on wet days.

Zen is Tantric Buddhism, Vajrayana is tantric Buddhism - these are various forms of it. Tantric Buddhism simply means cutting to the chase.

Does not the discipline of the scientific spirit just commence when one no longer harbours any conviction?

Marriage is the basic building block of civilization. We are redefining it at our own peril.

We are saved from nothing if we are not saved from sin.