I'm not someone who's endlessly patient and wonderful.

Glamour really has to do with good lighting, doesn't it?

And cooking is about balance and harmony.

I was shy as a child. Now I'm not really shy any more, unless I'm with shy people. I find it contagious and I don't know what to say. But I don't think shyness is something one should feel apologetic about.

In fact I am quite snappy and irritable, and I don't know if I'd like to make myself worse in that respect.

But if you know that something has been really vicious, you don't read it, you don't let it into your head. What's damaging is when sentences go through your head and you burn with the injustice of it.

I need to be frightened of things. I hate it, but I must need it, because it's what I do.