I get a thrill meeting kids who are into alternative music.
Women today are bombarded with so many messages, like we should have Naomi Campbell's body and Madeleine Albright's career.
Oh, God, I'm so lonely. An entire weekend streching ahead with no one to love or have fun with. Anyway, I don't care. I've got a lovely steamed ginger pudding from M&S to put in the microwave.
. . we were always taught, instead of waiting to be swept off our feet, to 'expect little, forgive much'.
It's rather fun writing a female spy, because she has so much more kit. Bond never carried a hair dryer or a makeup bag. And he certainly didn't wear an uplift bra.
I got into my usual obsessive writing frenzy, using all the material I'd worked on for so long and crafting it into a little novel [Bridget Jones's Baby: The Diaries].
I was writing an earnest novel about cruises in the Caribbean and I just started writing 'Bridget Jones' to get some money, to finance this earnest work, and then I chucked it out.
The first country to adopt happiness as an official goal of public policy is the tiny little country of Bhutan in Asia near China and India.
. . . capitalism does live by crises and booms, just as a human being lives by inhaling and exhaling.
I always call him Lewis Carroll Carroll, because he was the first Humbert Humbert.
I suspect states are going to realize there's money to be made, and they'll start to change laws so people can distil to sell. It happened with wine, it happened with beer.