"I sign so many autographs, my hand hurts every day."

“We all survive more than we think we can,”

“I want to be a blonde vampire. Catherine Deneuve was a blonde vampire, and she was my favourite vampire ever.”

Source : "Her brilliant career" by Polly Vernon, www.theguardian.com. October 17, 2004.

“Hypocrisy means deliberately pretending. None of us lives up to his ideals; none of us is all that he would like to be or all that he could be in Christ. But that is not hypocrisy. Falling short of our ideals is not hypocrisy. Pretending we have reached our ideals when we have not - that is hypocrisy.”

“I never tell my age because I hope I'll always be the new kid on the block.”

“The average person suffers from three delusions: 1) That he is a good driver 2) That he has a good sense of humor and 3) That he is a good listener.”

“Fashion is an imposition, a reign on freedom.”

“Nobody can be a success if they don't love their work.”

“Only a country that feels invulnerable can afford political turmoil as entertainment.”

Source : Lionel Shriver (2011). “We Need to Talk about Kevin”, p.25, Counterpoint Press