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.

When I made mistakes, people used to laugh. I could have learnt better, but I've always liked to make people laugh.

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.

There's no fun in a bag if it's not kicked around, so that it looks as if the cat's been sitting on it-and it usually has. The cat may even be in it! I always put on stickers and beads and worry beads. You can get them from Greece, Israel, Palestine-from anywhere in the world. I always hang things on my bags because I don't like them looking like everyone else's.

I only like boutiques.

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.

If I were mayor, I'd invite everyone to have free boat trips on the river and free balloon rides over the city. I'd let the elderly in residential homes wander free.