This is what happens. You tell your friends your most personal secrets, and they use them against you.

I never did any training in journalism or in finance, so I really was in the deep end. I got very good at going to press conferences and nodding. I'd figure it out when I got back to the office. Charts and numbers. I've never been great with facts, ever, my whole life. For a journalist, that's not a very good trait.

You're working for me cut out the attitude.

My childhood was spent embracing one literary heroine after another. I identified passionately with each one and would slavishly imitate them.

I change my mind so much, I'm better going on my own. Shopping is a selfish activity anyway.

It's not enough to believe! Don't you see that, you stupid girl? You could spend your whole life hoping and believing! If a love affair is one-sided, then it's only ever a question, never an answer. You can't live your life waiting for an answer.

Sometimes, when I can't get to sleep, I imagine all the rules I'd invent if I ever got to be in charge of the world.