I just want Tina Fey to be my best friend. And Lena Dunham. And Oprah, too.

I do not... look very feminine. Diana, Princess of Wales is feminine... I am... femi-none.

Who doesn't have a friend who worships her lover with a passion that seems baffling to everyone that knows them? Before you met him for the first time, she'd talked him up like he was a cross between Indiana Jones, Barack Obama and The Doctor. When you finally meet him, he's a quiet little thing who looks like a baked bean in glasses, and actually says 'harumph' as spelt.

The first thing to improve society is not banning abortion, but making sure that everyone who had a child is in the best position to be able to rear it.

If you can find a frock you look nice in and can run up three flights of stairs, you're not fat.

Watching 'Girls' has just given me renewed courage.

The motto I have penned on my knuckles is that this is the best world we have--because it's the only world we have. It's the simplest math ever. However many terrible, rankling, peeve-inducing things may occur, there are always libraries. And rain-falling-on-sea. And the moon. And love. There is always something to look back on, with satisfaction, or forward to, with joy. There is always a moment where you boggle at the world--at yourself--at the whole, unlikely, precarious business of being alive--and then start laughing