I have a lot of people to thank but they're none of them here so I'm not going to bother.

I understand what it's like to come with your family, and to uproot yourself and come to another culture. You need a lot of support. People say, 'She's got her daughter; she's got her husband.' Yeah, but she hasn't got anyone else.

I don't have technique because I never learnt any.

When husbands and fathers leave, their wives and daughters tend to value themselves less as a result.

Laughter is a celebration of our failings. That's what clowns are for. And that's what I am.

Tell him I mind having to look pretty, that's what I mind, because it is so much more of an effort.

Children are much more understanding of the suddenness and arbitrariness of death than we are. The old fairy tales contain a lot of that, and we've stolen from them, just as they stole from Greek myth, which has that same mixture of pre-Christian chaos.