I wouldn't allow them to be brats, I couldn't afford that. ''

MODEL MAYE MUSK, who raised three entrepreneurs - Elon, Kimbal and Tosca Musk - as a single, divorced mother

It's wonderful fortune for a writer to be born somewhere boring. Tedium is hugely stimulating for a child's imagination. Suburbia is a classic writer's breeding ground. ''

PLAYWRIGHT DAVID HARE

Even if I'm poison, I'm not fatally poisonous. ''

COMEDIAN DAYO WONG, who was labelled box-office poison before his new hit movie Agent Mr Chan