The monarchy is finished. It was finished a while ago, but they're still making the corpses dance.

The monarchy is finished. It was finished a while ago, but they're still making the corpses dance.

We had library books in our house, but not our own. So you had 14 days to read them. There would be eight books a fortnight in our house and I'd read as many of those as I could.

'The Gambler' by Dostoevsky. It was the first time I realised that it was possible to have good and evil in one person. It led me to read a lot of Russian literature.

I think we take it for granted that if you are with your husband after 30 years, then he is the love of your life.

Sometimes I rant, in a comical way, about how the gods give with one hand and take with the other.