I think maybe when you live with someone who is really very ill for a long time, it somehow gives you more of a greedy appetite for life and maybe, yes, you are less measured in your behaviour than you would otherwise be.

Good olive oil, good butter, milk - they give food taste and depth and a richness that you cant reproduce with low-fat ingredients.

There is a vast difference between how things seem from the outside and how they feel on the inside.

It s easier to impress someone than to give them pleasure.

I am not sure about facelifts because I wouldn't want to be someone who just looks like she's had a facelift.

Emotion is messy, contradictory... and true.

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.