Jilly Cooper

The male is a domestic animal which, if treated with firmness and kindness, can be trained to do most things.

There is nothing more attractive than a man who is not a New Man.

The bank told us we ought to sell this house to pay off our overdraft. Riders saved the day. I was so pleased when it got to number one, I went all around the fields crying and crying.

Of course my life has changed because now everybody knows who Felix Baumgartner is.

The latest page I've been working is about the organization of the pantheon of the gods. Who's indebted to whom, how they are related, who screwed whose uncle or grandmother, all of that.

There are certainly contemporaries that I admire, like Emily Blunt. I think she is amazing.