I am proud of my cake-making image but life is not that perfect. There are socks in my fruit bowl.

I think all good writing is a struggle. To write as well as you feel you can has to be a struggle, almost by definition, because you could always improve.

People ask what the secret of a happy marriage is. If there is one, it's 'don't talk about it.

It makes me upset, if not angry, when people assume that there can be no morality without a religious framework. If there's a moral framework without all that religious stuff, it's more valuable.

My parents were not theatrical at all.

I was always very determined, as was my husband, that we wouldn't let any of our children act when they were young.

I think one wants lots of different lives.