No family is sane, is it?

It sounds trite, but I like telling stories.

There are people all over the world who like to write fan letters in the voice of their pet: 'Hello, my name is Fifi and I'm a labrador and I think you're great. Paw paw!'

Lentil dhal is the only thing I can cook.

As a child I loved ghost stories.

If you act scared, your body produces adrenaline.

A floor length backless black sequined dress would be my dream dress. As for my dream date - that would have to be a young Marlon Brando!

One aspect of my mum's personality that has influenced me is her love of Hollywood and the golden era of black-and-white films.

I always look for contradiction in a character.

A good piece of art raises questions.

Sometimes I can spend months doing things to make sure that my instincts work correctly, but ultimately it's still instinctive.

There's no room for me in your world

Everything is relative; and only that is absolute.

In a way, a jail is a place where you can rest, read books and live with yourself.

there must be a way. surely there must be a way that we have not yet thought of. who put this brain inside of me? it cries it demands it says that there is a chance. it will not say "no.

I don't exercise - that's something I struggle with.

80 percent of learning is visual, so children who can't afford vision correction are at such a disadvantage.

The laws of Nature are written in the language of mathematics...the symbols are triangles, circles and other geometrical figures, without whose help it is impossible to comprehend a single word.

Throw off those chains of reason and your prison disappears.

Conran's Law of Housework - it expands to fill the time available plus half an hour.

My hope is that countries like Morocco will have investment to create work, so people don't have to leave.