I don't need to go onto Facebook and pretend to have friends I've never even met. To my mind, that kind of destroys the meaning of the word 'friend.' I take exception to that. Because I value and respect friendship.

Packing is always a nightmare.

The world that our children will inherit is going to look substantially different, very quickly, than the world we have today. It's alarming.

'Bossy' is someone who bosses people around without reason.

We are losing our environment so rapidly.

Unfortunately, sometimes people don't hear you until you scream.

Painting is the passage from the chaos of the emotions to the order of the possible.

The construction of Europe is an art. It is the art of the possible.

I think that art has the ability to capture people's imaginations and make them think that more is possible.

First, I was so dazzled and besotted by India. People said the poverty was biblical, and I'm afraid that was my attitude, too. It's terribly easy to get used to someone else's poverty if you're living a middle-class life in it. But after a while, I saw it wasn't possible to accept it, and I also didn't want to.

The cat is such a perfect symbol of beauty and superiority that it seems scarcely possible for any true aesthete and civilised cynic to do other than worship it.

With beauty, I just try to get as much sleep as possible. I might have a nice hot bath and moisturise with coconut oil.