I'm not busy... a woman with three children under the age of 10 wouldn't think my schedule looked so busy.

You don't have to justify a beautiful stroke of good luck. Accept it. Smile and say thank you.

Second violins can play a concerto perfectly if they're in their own home and nobody's there.

Some luck lies in not getting what you thought you wanted but getting what you have, which once you have got it you may be smart enough to see is what you would have wanted had you known.

I want to resume the life of a shy person.

Winter: It's not just a season, it's who we are.

TV news is as bloody as Shakespeare but without the intelligence and the poetry. If you watch television news you know less about the world than if you drank gin out of a bottle