I want to retire very early, by the time I am 40, and go to live in Italy.

I like my men to be manly, as you'll see from my books.

'Kane and Abel' is the best popular fiction of all time. As a kid, I wanted to be prime minister when I read 'First Among Equals.'

Abuse directed at women is always sexual or violent.

The nature of the internet is that you don't know who is behind the screen.

Money gives you the power to do whatever you want to do. I like the idea of being in complete control of my life.

Menshn is a play on the word mention, and in the U.S. that's how it'll be perceived. Like Tumblr or Flickr. People in the U.K. thought that I'd named it after myself.

I have no ambitions to be a cabinet minister, or prime minister. I wouldn't wish being prime minister on my worst enemy.

I'm not sure I make old bones in parliament. It's an amazing experience to have had but I can't see myself being Mother of the House.

Once you are a proper, serious law-maker, you can't break the laws you're writing.

Of course women can have it all - if they want it all. I won't hear any defeatist talk. If you just dwell on problems, you won't get anywhere fast.

Freedom is the choice to be free than to be a slave.

A positive mind-set says that you are not a victim to the whims of others or by circumstances over which you have no control.

Project a confident image through good body posture.

Also, perhaps children are sterner than grown-up people in their refusal to suffer, in their refusal, even, to feel at all.

Think only what is right there, what is right under your nose to do. It's such a simple thing - that's why people can't do it.

Let thy step be slow and steady, that thou stumble not.

There's no such thing as a perfect guy. I think it would be strange if somebody was absolutely everything you always wanted, because then there'd be no challenge. Also, you'd feel inferior.

The modern clercs have created in so-called cultivated society a positive romanticism of harshness. The have also created a romanticism of contempt.

A Scorpio, it's just about peeling back the layers. And I'm always surprised at myself-there's a lot under there.

Always try to be yourself.