A poll earlier this year showed that 42 per cent of Americans believe we're in the End Times.

We live in a society that worships youth. On television, in magazines, in advertisements and on billboards, what sells and what is sold to us is youth.

Pressure and stress is the common cold of the psyche.

I think I was a feminist before the word was invented. By the time I came across feminist books by American or European writers, I realised that there was an articulate way or a language to express all these feelings that I had had for years and years and so I became a raging feminist as a young woman.

A poll earlier this year showed that 42 per cent of Americans believe we're in the End Times.

Comedy is a very personal thing, as you would know if you've ever told the same joke to two people and had one of them laugh their head off and the other one look at you as though you were a completely cretin.

The world is infinitely more complex than it appeared to me 15 years ago.