A Local Government Stationery Store is something to behold. It's like walking through the back of a cupboard into a really dull Narnia.

I can make a virtue of slapdash. Slapdash can give you courage.

When I'm a brunette, it's four times harder to hail a taxi. Then I go blonde again, and suddenly there are taxis everywhere.

When I write, I create really absurd situations which become false because I am after the joke.

If you get 10,000 guys to put their ideal woman into a computer, it still comes out looking like Angelina Jolie.

I once had a friend who did the hair for sci-fi movies, and after a particularly bad break-up I stupidly went to her salon and told her she could do anything she liked. She dyed the bottom cherry red and the top peroxide blonde.

What having a Down's syndrome child isn't - and I feel very strongly about this - is a tragedy. All those pregnancy books you read when you are expecting refer to Down's syndrome as if it were the worst possible outcome, and it's not.