A car, which is used like a van; I should have just bought the van.

It's bad taste to brag about money.

I don’t own a property. The carpet in our flat; it’s not fancy or anything.

Some material things make my life more enjoyable; many, however, would not. I like having an expensive private plane, but owning a half-dozen homes would be a burden. Too often, a vast collection of possessions ends up possessing its owner.

Appearing on US breakfast radio. I heard the DJ say that after the news we would hear from the author Lincoln Child. I had to choose between making a guy with a mixed-up PR release look like an idiot or pretending to be Lincoln. I pretended.

The exact median middle-aged black woman in the US. If hard work guaranteed success, she’d be the most successful person on the planet. But she isn’t, yet she keeps on going.

More than I can, sadly. I led the softest of lives in the softest of times, and my daughter will face sterner challenges.

Always saying yes to people. For example, I’m doing this.

First loved, then laid, then paid.

Do the secret thing you know you were born to do.