My favourite plant is the foxglove. I think they are a perfect balance between being a garden plant and a wild plant, as at home in woodland as they are in a city.

The labour Party has lost the last four elections. If they lose another, they get to keep the liberal party.

I'm not bald. I'm just taller than my hair.

I've always liked trees. And then, growing up, I took an interest in ecology, hedges being destroyed, the landscape being turned into prairies.

Gardening has just sort of grown on me. I find it therapeutic. And I like smelly things.

On the environmental front there's concern about global warming and high levels of carbon dioxide, and trees take in CO2 and store carbon.

I don't think I'm really a rude person, but now I see myself on television, I think, 'Oh, God, that is a bit strong.' And I wonder if I've always been like that and I haven't been aware of it.

You can be a famous poisoner or a successful poisoner, but not both, and the same seems to apply to Great Train Robbers.

I think political correctness is a moving line.

It's true, people don't imagine I'd be particularly woody.

I do find myself surprised by the comedy shows that seem to have the same joke week in week out.

Everything I've ever done, in the writing world, has been to expand articulation, rather than to close it.

Stop doing what everybody is saying and invest in personal growth.

I'm not the new anything; I'm just Agyness.

When I reflect on how things have changed, I can't help but laugh.

Whatever is in me is stronger than what is out there to defeat me.

Luxury is the income tax of vanity. But it is so pleasant.

Those who do good science do so because they choose problems that are suited to them.

I've been dealing with epic images, and I realized all of a sudden that I grew up in the age of epics.

Anybody who knows something about the history of the human race knows that there is no civilization which has condoned homosexual marriage widely and openly that has long survived.

When once a decision is reached and execution is the order of the day, dismiss absolutely all responsibility and care about the outcome.