I'm a huge Star Wars fan. I lost my Darth Vader watch.

I don't think I'm particularly sexual, no more than anyone else, though I am very creative.

I was always really into the music rather than the scene.

I'm not really a girlie. I can be once in a while, but then I tend to fall off the heels.

I'm a lager drinker. I'm quite a stupid lager drinker. I do like my lager and mashed potatoes.

I crammed my exams in London and did fine.

I wanted to go out and experience the fields.

Spiderman can climb walls and he's got a cool outfit.

I got quite bored when I was hanging in the air. I want to do it without a parachute next.

When I was on my own in a hotel room in Romania, I had the imagination to keep myself occupied.

I'm a huge Star Wars fan. I lost my Darth Vader watch.

I used to go to raves, but I was never into the whistles and white gloves.

There's nothing particularly physical that I find attractive in a man. It's men with a passion for something that I find attractive.

I was a complete loon, but I don't regret a bit of it.

Between '89 and '93 I was a wild child, a real nutter.

The best thing is being really close. The worst thing is being really close.

The power of the 'Muppets,' and the popularity of these characters, is so iconic in people's lives that I had to distance myself from publicly. Not privately... Privately, hell, I'm with them for life, and I love these people. They're my second family.

Childhood is not dead. Children were worse off when we were hunter-gatherers; they were threatened in medieval times and exploited during the Industrial Revolution. Was it any better in the time of Charles Kingsley or Charles Dickens?

I grew up around writers, and there was always a romance to them. They were charming. They would tell their stories of what they were working on, over the table.

The American people frankly have been, over many, many years - to be blunt - fat, dumb and happy. If they want their children to compete with children in India, China or Korea, they better get them a far better education.

I am ready to sacrifice everything in completing the unfinished agenda of our noble jihad... until there is no bloodshed in Afghanistan and Islam becomes a way of life for our people.

I'm reluctant to get involved in science fiction, because I feel like I've done it and done it well, so unless something comes along that I feel has the potential to do something even more interesting, it seems a shame to sort of re-live something in half-measures.

In the old days, people used to risk their lives in India or in the Americas in order to bring back products which now seem to us to have been of comically little worth.

But I have to grow out of it, because it's very boring, really. Even when you're telling people how crap you are, you're still banging on about yourself.

I like solving problems, and science provides a logical way of solving real-life problems.

Good asparagus needs minimal treatment and is best eaten with few other ingredients.

Wit invents; inspiration reveals. The inventions of wit are conceits - metaphors and paradoxes - that discover the secret correspondences that unite beings and things among and with themselves; inspiration is condemned to dissipate its revelations - unless a form can be found to contain them.

A book's flaws make it less predictable.

If you're making a social call, don't call past 8 P.M. The evening is a time when people need a respite from their work - a time to unwind, uninterrupted.

I guess I'm still sort of feisty and a little bit of a tomboy.

That's what is great about what I do, going from one job to the other.

Maybe I'll put my iPod in two minutes before. But truly, I've listened to actors say that they loved to listen to music before a shot, and I really understand that now because it puts you in the mood and gives you energy.

Aging is not lost youth but a new stage of opportunity and strength.

Beneath all differences of doctrine or discipline there exists a fundamental agreement as to the simple, absolute essentials in religion.

I'm very unrelaxed doing a newspaper interview.

You can't cross the sea merely by standing and staring at the water. Don't let yourself indulge in vain wishes.

My guitarist husband, Mike, and writer me are the old-fashioned kind of bohemians. Not 'fro-haired hipsters gyrating in iPod ads, but the sort who, starting January 1 of every year, literally don't know where their next dime is coming from.

I will follow my father's footsteps by doing what is right, and God will take care of the rest. My father is my role model. My living role model is Cory Aquino.

I'd like to say that right now, in the last few years, the Democrats have been closer - have been more pro-environment. The coal industry is pretty well entrenched in the Republican Party and that's one of the things that we need to phase out.