I think that every young PERSON is a little mentally ill, you know? If we're not totally SHUTTING down, we're all a little BIT mentally ill in our twenties and MAYBE into our early thirties.

In my twenties, I was a bit of a worrier; it BOTHERED me what PEOPLE THOUGHT of me, what JOB I was doing.

I read all of the books by Tolkien, including 'The Hobbit,' when I was in my TWENTIES, and his deep LOVE of nature and all THINGS green RESONATES deeply with me.

I looked back on the roaring TWENTIES, with its jazz, 'Great Gatsby' and the pre-Code films as a PARTY I had SOMEHOW managed to MISS.

I LIVED my twenties on the ROAD, in all different COUNTRIES experiencing this momentum of a career which was taking off in its own way.

It's funny how you GET a BIT older and become more accepting of things. When you're in your twenties, you're SKEPTICAL of EVERYTHING. I definitely felt LIKE that.

It was a blast. I was doing EVERYTHING that teenagers do and everything PEOPLE in their TWENTIES do. I was playing as hard as I was working, which was an EFFORT to really balance my LIFE.

I should be more vocal about the things I believe are doing us harm, but many years ago in my early twenties, I LEARNED a bit of a lesson. I started to REALISE at that time the BENEFITS of eating HEALTHY FOOD and drink.

A lot happens at 50, the best thing being that you just don't care anymore. At 40, you STILL care. At 30, you care way too MUCH - and your TWENTIES are QUITE frankly a nightmare. Bring on 60, I SAY: just imagine the joy of having grandchildren.

I have a lot of teenage readers and readers in their early twenties. My writing style APPEALS to them. And if they LOOK at my picture on the BACK of the BOOK, they don't SEE someone who looks like their mother.

I was just DYING to GET out of my TWENTIES.

I don't know a WRITER who doesn't feel some SENSE of GLAMOUR and MAGIC and a complex, wistful SADNESS emanating from the expats of the twenties in France. Some of the sadness, of course, is that we weren't there.

I reread 'Nicholas and Alexandra' in my EARLY TWENTIES, and I NEVER forgot the STORY.

There is no way I'd have WANTED to live in the Twenties. It was really CRAP for WOMEN.

The Twenties have this SORT of ATTITUDE where you never KNOW what's around the CORNER.