Everyone wants to be young, beautiful and rich. I don't say that scornfully: there are worse things to want to be. But that's why, for example, people don't begrudge Kate Moss how much she earns for a day's work but will fulminate over the take-home pay of some fat, old Water Board exec.

I don't believe you can ever really cook unless you love eating.

On the whole, I prefer Christmas as an adult than I did as a child.

Statistically, people who have been happily married and then widowed tend to remarry.

I wasn't good with authority, went to lots of schools, didn't like the fact that there was no autonomy.

You could probably get through life without knowing how to roast a chicken, but the question is, would you want to?

And, in a funny way, each death is different and you mourn each death differently and each death brings back the death you mourned earlier and you get into a bit of a pile-up.