The arena of women's lives is somewhat more intimate. If a woman goes out with an incredibly attractive man and they break up, that woman is not more attractive to men. It's completely irrelevant to them. That's an example of the way women's minds work.

The nineties, ecstatic decade!

Without the balancing context of everyday life, all you have is the news, and news by its nature is generally bad.

I'm most honest about writing when I'm talking to family or friends, not to newspapers.

When I was 13, I really used to skip down the street, happy in thinking, "Oh, well, someone's suffering pain in order for me to feel this pleasure."

When I see my friends engaging in a Twitter war for an afternoon, I think that would destroy me for a month.

Tell the truth through whichever veil comes to hand - but tell it.