 On the whole, I prefer Christmas as an adult than I did as a child. |
| There is a vast difference between how things seem from the outside and how they feel on the inside. |
| 'Statistically, people who have been happily married and then widowed tend to remarry. |
| Cooking is actually quite aggressive and controlling and sometimes, yes, there is an element of force-feeding going on. |
| People who have fabulous childhoods have this sense that nothing is ever going to be that good again. With me, I have the sense that nothing is going to be that bad. |
| I was a quiet teenager, introverted, full of angst. |
| In fact I am quite snappy and irritable, and I don't know if I'd like to make myself worse in that respect. |
| There is a kind of euphoria of grief, a degree of madness. |
| I don't like conflict. |
| I never have plans for the future as you never know how things will turn out. |
| Gordon Ramsay makes me laugh because he knows that I'm not a chef. |
| I can understand why those primitive desert people think a camera steals their soul. It is unnatural to see yourself from the outside. |
| But if you know that something has been really vicious, you don't read it, you don't let it into your head. What's damaging is when sentences go through your head and you burn with the injustice of it. |
