Tears are sometimes an inappropriate response to death. When a life has been lived completely honestly, completely successfully, or just completely, the correct response to deaths perfect punctuation mark is a smile. – Julie Burchill
Surely being a Professional Beauty – let alone an ageing one – is one of the most insecure and doomed careers imaginable. – Julie Burchill
As a precocious teen I dreamed of being Graham Greene. Well, as it turned out, I never wrote a great novel, sadly, and I never converted to Catholicism, happily, but I did do one thing he did. That is, in middle age I moved to a seaside town and got into a right barney with the local powers-that-be. – Julie Burchill
We are used to female writers who use their private lives as unmitigated material being somewhat hormonal this somehow excuses what might be seen as a highly unfeminine ability to turn their personal upsets into money. – Julie Burchill