I'm not going to marry a third time. It is just not necessary.

Sad old blokes, I'm told, now dream of me with a whip in hand.

My accountant regularly asks to take me to lunch. I always say I can't afford it.

Mirror, mirror on the wall, whos the dumbest of you all?

Every mother and daughter should make time for a trip together. It's good for the soul.

I am dating, but it is hard to find someone quick enough and funny enough. I am quite demanding.

I don't despise, because no-one should live rent-free inside your head.

Being rich and miserable has got to be better than poor and unhappy.

We mothers of grown-up daughters tend to view them with a mixture of love, exasperation, irritation and awe.

My best business decision is always to have been unembarrassed about negotiating a decent deal. Not being coy or shy about money is second nature to me.

I come from a family of traders; my grandmother and my mother were very good at making money.

I'd rather be hated for who I am, than loved for who I am not.

Personal brands are determined by a track record of actions, not a track record of plans.

You know, you can always pick the lit students," he continued, grinning. "Is that so? How?" "They're the ones who walk around wearing berets and that I-know-something-you-don't expression.

The line between normal and crazy seemed impossibly thin. A person would have to be an expert tightrope walker in order not to fall.

As cliched as it sounds, if you have an original voice and an original idea, then no matter what anybody says, you have to find a way to tell that story.

Pride, which inspires us with so much envy, is sometimes of use toward the moderating of it too.

The sizes and shapes of the panels have never been important to my stories. It has always been the words and images that drew me in, kind of like watching a movie.

If every instinct you have is wrong, then the opposite would have to be right.

I can write a story in working-class Stockholm Swedish, but I'm not going to assume I can perform the same feat with Cockney. I'll focus on adventures in story, themes and structure instead.

We need to inject some old-fashioned American values and common-sense, practical thinking into our energy policy.