"I work very hard to achieve simplicity, which is never natural, never spontaneous. It's always obtained at the price of a great effort."

“There are conditions of blindness so voluntary that they become complicity.”

Source : Paul Bourget (1893). “Cosmopolis”, p.152, Library of Alexandria

“Nymphets do not occur in polar regions.”

“You don't have to be rich and famous. You just have to be an ordinary person, doing extraordinary things. I'd like more people to know that it's there. Women's achievements still aren't recognised enough in many areas.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quote, www.imdb.com.

“Stop spending so much time trying to prove what you already know to people who don't really matter. It just makes you look insecure and lacking self-confidence.”

“The man who first abused his fellows with swear-words instead of bashing their brains out with a club should be counted among those who laid the foundations of civilization.”

“The song and dance didn't stop us dying. It just stopped the fear of death swallowing us up while we were still alive.”

“A desk is a dangerous place from which to view the world.”

“I was the youngest. The yule lamb. The one who always got away without doing the washing up. My sister was four years older, and my brother six years.”