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

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.

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

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.

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.

Be prepared to work hard to be a writer.

Life can give everything to whoever tries to understand and is willing to receive new knowledge.

The innocent little girl said at the end of her prayer "Jesus, please take care of yourself because if anything happens to you, we are all in trouble

He was a silent type, very nervy of people: shy, introverted, nobody would believe he could scream so loud…well he did drink a bottle of bleach!

Oh my love, it's you that I dream of Oh my love, since that day Somewhere in my heart I'm always Dancing with you in the summer rain

I've got huge tubs full of X-Files memorobilia that I can sell on eBay.

Health has its science, as well as disease.

Whan that Aprill with his shoures soote The droghte of March hath perced to the roote.

The bigotry question goes both ways. There's a lot more anti-Christian bigotry today than there is concerning the other side. None of it gets covered by the news media.

Live in the present and shape the future, do not be casting lingering looks to the distant past for the past has passed away, never again to return.