I'd rather live on my own than live with a face that looks at me with the wrong eyes.

I remember being married to John Barry and trying to be the best wife in the world.

I don't know why people keep banging on about the '60s. I was very conventional because I came from a conventional family and I didn't go off with different people - I rather wish I had now, seeing all the fun everyone else was having.

When I was at school I used to scream in trains, in those concertina things between the carriages. I used to try to be so good that sometimes I couldn't bear it any more.

If you fall in love with a country and its people, that makes any country warm to you.

I love Dickens because it makes me chuckle to myself so. He has taken me to another world and out of so many earthly miseries.

Robert Louis Stevenson... I'm focusing on the late short stories that I was ignorant of. I always thought he was a boys' author, but he's not at all.