King Charles II liked women's company and well as making love to them.

Ninety-seven is my lucky number.

I love hearing details of writers' craft, as cannibals eat the brains of clever men to get cleverer.

Of course there's no such thing as a totally objective person, except Almighty God, if she exists.

That is my major concern: writers who are in prison for writing.

My advantage as a woman and a human being has been in having a mother who believed strongly in women's education. She was an early undergraduate at Oxford, and her own mother was a doctor.

Normally I make myself swim, do exercises. For zest I like going to the cinema.