Keep smiling - it takes 10 years off!

My look is a cocktail. I'm not as nicely turned out as the french, but I don't care like the English.

Any film I see at two o'clock in afternoon with my mother seems to cast a strange spell that means we both come out sobbing.

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.

People always like things that seem exotic.

I know what it's like to have someone coming home who looks at you not in the way they used to in the old days, and I've seen my own face contorted with sadness and rage in the mirror.

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.