I enjoy convalescence. It is the part that makes the illness worth while.
A lot of TV people buy more than one of an item, in case they spot or stain it, but I don't like buying duplicates - it's wasteful.
As with all my new pets, I gently bit each kitten on the face. This is how I let my animals know that I am now their mother.
I have a lot of energy. I have a great desire to absorb information. I'm not a sponge exactly, but I find that something I look at - just walking around Williamsburg, for example - is a great opportunity for ideas. I've been here before, I've seen things before, but now my eye gets keener and keener. So I can pick up little things: just the pattern of a brick walk, or the way they've attached a light to a house.
Franchesca and Sharkey, my French bulldogs, have their own blog. And they are brilliant at it.
Really try to find a job where it's fun to get up and get out the door, no matter what time.
The homes I like the best are totally occupied, busy, and useful, whether it's a tiny little house or a great big one. Rarely do you find a great big house that's used in a good way. So I prefer smaller spaces that are full of books, full of things that people are doing.
You have to create a track record of breaking your own mold, or at least other people's idea of that mold.
Humor is practically the only thing about which the English are utterly serious.
I'm a poet,' the young man said, 'And it's my job to remember the sadness of things.
Norfolk is not on the way to anywhere, you don't stop off on the way somewhere else - it's an end in itself. You have to want to go there; it's an effort.