I learned to be a regional writer by reading people like Flannery O'Connor. She was a huge influence.

I was in the equity-trading department at Merrill Lynch. I was there in 1987 when the market crashed.

I really want to work with Emma Stone; she is adorable.

We don't agree with Caitlyn Jenner deciding she is the spokesperson for trans people.

My best party friend...? Fifi Brown. And Poppy Delevingne. She's so fun and so inclusive - she really is the glue.

I didn't intend to introduce food so early, but she became very interested at about 5 months, and I just gave her whatever sort of nutrient-rich food I had. Her first food was smoked trout.

It used to be that when an actress reached thirty, she was considered almost washed up.

The human being is not the lord of beings, but the shepherd of Being.

Trent Bridge, 2013, is my favourite Test. An Ashes opener and England won a thriller by 14 runs. I managed to take ten wickets, which helps.

I'm not really as cool and collected as 'Mrs. Funnybones', but she is the woman I want to be.

Victoria Woodcock ran Vote Leave - she was a truly awesome project manager and without her Cameron would certainly have won.

When a woman removes her garment, she also removes the respect that is hers.

The walls are the publishers of the poor.

Cod and clementine is one of the things my grandmother cooked for my mum when she was a child. Never one for waste, she'd keep the peel whenever she had a clementine, and this dish puts it to work.

'Lizzie McGuire' was my big thing when I was younger. I did buy some pencils and back-to-school stuff of hers because she was on it. I loved her.

Ellen DeGeneres is brilliant. She's funny, she's warm and she doesn't hurt anybody on her show.

I think Emily Blunt is definitely our finest young female English export. She has an uncanny grace.

The thematic, psychological, and cultural concerns of a writer are more relevant than whatever literary mode he or she chooses to deal with in any given novel.

She's been around so long and she doesn't disappoint ever. Gaga also thinks out of the box and that's what the best artists do.

All love is vanquished by a succeeding love.