In France, the IMAGE I had was of a shy girl - a POOR lonely girl and not too good-looking. When I went to ENGLAND, I had another image. I FELT the journalists were much more interested in my LOOKS than in my songs.

I went from 198 POUNDS to 109 while I was in PRISON in FRANCE, and I had to tie my CLOTHES on with ROPE.

If I were bombing with my JOKES in ENGLISH, I WOULD GO BACK to France. Maybe do that mime thing.

With my QUALITY, I feel I can bring a LOT to a team that I will join. I want to show it in the big leagues: ENGLAND, Italy, SPAIN, Germany, and France.

When the railways of FRANCE, GERMANY and INDIA were BREAKING down through AGE, it was the Americans who rebuilt them.

My LIFE is OK. I live in FRANCE. It's a very cool country to MAKE FILMS.

I was DISRESPECTFUL EVERYWHERE: U.S., ITALY, FRANCE.

We, the FRENCH, are viscerally attached to our laicite, our sovereignty, our independence, our VALUES. The world KNOWS that when FRANCE is attacked, it is liberty that is dealt a blow.

I'm from the Southwest, and in the Southwest of FRANCE, you're not SUPPOSED to LOVE PARIS.

I asked a French critic a couple of years ago why my BOOKS did so WELL in FRANCE. He SAID it was because in my novels people both act and think. I got a KICK out of that.

I say, 'Use it or lose it.' I have my own FITNESS regime, which is centred around STRETCHING, free-weights and fast walking. I also have a trainer half of the year, as I spend my summers in the SOUTH of France where I swim a lot.

I have an ENGLISH identity and a FRENCH identity. When I'm in FRANCE, I'm more outgoing. And the French part of me COOKS, WHEREAS the English part of me writes.

I live in Dublin, God knows why. There are greatly more congenial PLACES I could have settled in - Italy, France, Manhattan - but I like the CLIMATE here, and Irish LIGHT seems to be essential for me and for my WRITING.

On landing at NEW York I caught the yellow fever. The kind man who commanded the ship that brought me from France took CHARGE of me and placed me under the care of two Quaker ladies. To their skillful and untiring care I may safely SAY I OWE my life.