I'm told leather drives men up the wall. I like wearing it because it because it feels nice.

My father was in the civil service. I can remember standing in a bus shelter in the pouring rain, and that we were allowed candy floss at the end of the holiday if we had behaved.

Apart from anything else, I find boots are too hot except in wintry weather. At home I usually wear a sweater, shirt and slacks.

I've travelled around the UK a lot recently and have discovered that I really like trains. If you're in the quiet carriage, nobody can get hold of you and you can relax.

South Africa is the most beautiful country I have been to. Canada is also hugely underrated.

I hate everything about airports from getting there to taking off.

I'm very fond of Norfolk. My husband came from there and the kids love it. Devon is beautiful, too.

Most of the Bond girls have been bimbos. I have never been a bimbo.

I'm the slowest reader in the world, because I perform it all in my head.

No More Avengers! There's nothing new to get out of it - I want to go forward, not backward.

The things we love destroy us every time, lad. Remember that.

Oh, Hazel is awesome, " Don Said. "She's so nice! All the other campers are like 'Go away Don.' But she's like 'Please go away, Don.' I love her!

Here, there, every where

Kloo nodded at Lex in an indescribably maternal way, somehow cramming a lifetime of compassion, support, and tenderness all into one slight bounce of the head.

The prejudices of ignorance are more easily removed than the prejudices of interest; the first are blindly adopted; the second wilfully preferred.

I often painted fragments of things because it seemed to make my statement as well as or better than the whole could.

What I consider to be peace [is] a sustainable peace in which the majority of people on this planet have access to enough resources to live dignified lives.

That's what you get for telling the truth. Someone calls you a liar. Most people will accept a likely lie to an unlikely truth. In fact, they prefer it.

Oh, how beautiful it is to be alive - would that I could live a thousand times

I was and am, like many women, both pro-life and pro-choice.