Wisdom is reliable

Now I just act like I don't remember

I've been alienating my public since I was 20 years old.

In Lake Wobegon, we don't forget mistakes.

I am I because my little dog knows me.

That's when the idea for Mad About the Boy arrived. It wasn't even a Bridget [Jones] story initially - then I realized I was writing in Bridget's voice and it grew from there into a Bridget novel.

Sweets, you couldn't ignore me if you tried.

The living carry us inside them like pearls. We survive only so long as they remember us.

When you work with chains or any kind of weapons, or just when you're using hand-to-hand combat, you are going to get hurt

I don't ever want to grow up. I guess I'm like Peter Pan. Grown-ups have problems. I want to stay happy.

My daily Nespresso coffee, an unexpected shaft of sunlight through the window on a winter's day, my bargain Missoni sunglasses (70 percent off!)