People say that time is a great healer. Which people? What are they talking about? I think some feelings you experience in your life are written in indelible ink and the best you can hope for is that they fade a little over the years.

A mother of a one-year-old boy is a movie star in a world without critics.

The times you don't make it are the ones children remember, not the times you do.

The best musicians answer something in you when you don't even know the question.

When you're young your mother shields you from the world because she thinks you're too young to understand, and when she's old you shield her because she's too old to understand - or to have any more understanding inflicted upon her. The curve of life goes: want to know, know, don't want to know.

Anyone suffering Downton Abbey withdrawal symptoms will find an instant tonic.

The software program for motherhood is impossible to fully download into the male brain. You give them two tasks and they're like, 'I have to change the baby and get the dry cleaning?'