You keep your past by having sisters. As you get older, they're the only ones who don't get bored if you talk about your memories.

Everything will be alright in the end so if it is not alright it is not the end.

The only real failure is the failure to try, and the measure of success is how we cope with disappointment.

I'm mad about gardening. I have an allotment on the other side of Hampstead Heath, and I keep three hens in my garden.

Once a character has gelled it's an unmistakable sensation, like an engine starting up within one's body. From then onwards one is driven by this other person, seeing things through their eyes.

I was never a lonely child who sat looking at the rain sliding down the window.

Independence is fun, especially when there's a beloved waiting in the wings, and freedom makes you a more interesting person. Having separate lives brings fresh air into a relationship.

Pleasure, I remind myself, is inseparable from its lawfully wedded mate, pain.

I imagined calling in to my own radio show: Yeah hi, I'm a werewolf, and I'm stuck in a cabin in the woods with another werewolf and a werewolf hunter.

Art is about the dynamics of the human experience.

Yr crown has been bought and paid for. All you have to do is put it on yr head

I've fought court battles over my inventions before.

I'm a big fan of Kate Moss's style - no-one nails boho meets hippy chic like she does.

I think that the way we begin our day is really the way we live our day and the way we live our lives; and that not enough of us are really aware of it.

Montovani? They play Montovani to insomniacs that don't respond to strong drugs

Older people sit down and ask, 'What is it?' but the boy asks, 'What can I do with it?'.

Overseas, kids grow up in a soccer culture. The German player sees the game eons above the American player the same age.