Deborah Moggach

I am a great believer in having the power to end your life and knowing that, in extremis, you can. But I would not want to involve anybody else in my actions if it could imperil them.

I'd like to be a jazz singer, but I couldn't possibly do it; nobody would want me, anyway.

Living apart is hardly possible if people have children together. It can also be more expensive to maintain two homes. But then, it's expensive to break up when you live in one property.

I'm a big action junkie. I grew up on the '80s action movies - the bad ones and the good ones.

I don't know why, but the older I get the more interested I get in my parents' marriage. And it's interesting to be married yourself, too, because there is an inevitable comparison.

Another thing that freaks me out is time. Time is like a book. You have a beginning, a middle and an end. It's just a cycle.