As Bridget writes to her son, in Bridget Jones' Baby - "if you just keep calm and keep your spirits up, things have a habit of turning out all right, just as they did for me."

It is horrid to smirk.

It is a truth universally acknowledged that as soon as one part of your life starts looking up, another falls to pieces.

It is proved by surveys that happiness does not come from love, wealth, or power but the pursuit of attainable goals.

Oh, God, I'm so lonely. An entire weekend streching ahead with no one to love or have fun with. Anyway, I don't care. I've got a lovely steamed ginger pudding from M&S to put in the microwave.

If the stories don't come from the inside out, then Bridget [Jones] is not being true to herself and it's very important to me that she stays that way.

Valentine's Day purely commercial, cynical enterprise, anyway. Matter of supreme indifference to me.