"I might be needy, competitive and desperate but it's far better than being wet."

"I admire the Elsie Tanners and Barbara Windsors of the world: people who have crawled back from the abyss. I'm quite camp in that respect."

"My older sister is bossy, my brother is a stirrer and me - well, I am perfect!"

"The only way to go on holiday is with your expectations at ground level. Convince yourself before you go that the weather's going to be dreadful and there will be nylon sheets. You'll then be pleasantly surprised."

"The task of art today is to bring chaos into order."

"Yet, it is true, poetry is delicious the best prose is that which is most full of poetry."

"Wisdom is the quiet art of recognizing what can be changed and releasing what cannot. Such is the immutable nature of understanding."

"Where thou art, that is home."