In those years only the dead smiled, Glad to be at rest: And Leningrad city swayed like A needless appendix to its prisons.

Life is not a puzzle to solve. Stop, Enjoy the Journey!

My meanness has an ego too, often bigger than my own.

Friendship is a precious thing, Sayuri. One mustn't throw it away.

To forgive is to set a prisoner free and discover that the prisoner was yourself.

The best way to detect the destructive element in someone is to watch closely their behavioural pattern when given authority over poverty.

Optimism is life with sprinkles on top.

Yes, I travel in unusual circles. George Osborne and his wife Frances are my cousins.

Come on fathers, don't hesitate, send them off before it's too late. Be the first one on the block to have your boy come home in a box.

I did not feel I could create a more beautiful or interesting Mars than Kim Stanley Robinson or Greg Bear had, so I turned my attention elsewhere.

I haven't done anything that can match up to what I learnt about myself as an actress and as a person or the friends that I made.