I'm worried about looking like a bad person when, in fact, I try to be a good person. I don't like the public image that I've been dressed with and it worries me.

English people are famous for never speaking out but only saying what they really feel about you behind your back. Americans believe the shortest distance between two points is a straight line. I like exploring those, er, differences in national snippiness.

In Germany, salads are assemblies of ham and mayonnaise, not trendy tossed leaves.

The Lady' is a piddling little magazine that no one cares about or buys.

If there's anything worse than being 16, it's having parents visibly reliving their own teenage years in your anguished presence.

Don't worry about never having time to write. Just write what you can in the time you do have and give yourself a big clap on the back, followed by a double latte and a blueberry muffin.

I'd like to see women get on to boards and run companies despite the fact that men occupy the citadels of power.