People always grumbled. If things went well they wanted them to go better. Give them comfort and they wanted luxuries.

It is to live that requires courage, not to die.

When I was 14 and living in London, I'd go around Hampton Court Palace with its marvelous atmosphere, through the gateway where Ann Boleyn walked, the haunted gallery down which Katherine Howard ran. It all set me going. It all started from there.

I've always thought you've got to believe in luck to get it.

I consider myself extremely lucky to have been born and raised in London, and to have had on my doorstep this most fascinating of cities with so many relics of 2000 years of history still to be found in its streets. One of my greatest pleasures was, and still is, exploring London.

How stupid lovers can be! But if they were not, there would be no story.

But our lives were not as they seemed, were they, Sophia? No one's life ever is.