I had lost faith in biography.

It is the woman - nearly always - in spite of all the advances of modern feminism, who still takes responsibility for the bulk of the chores, as well as doing her paid job. This is true even in households where men try to be unselfish and to do their share.

The latest research has revealed that women have a higher IQ than men.

I might be deceiving myself but I do not think that I do have an inordinate fear of death.

The fact that logic cannot satisfy us awakens an almost insatiable hunger for the irrational.

I was once naïve enough to ask the late Duke of Devonshire why he liked the town of Eastbourne. He replied with a self-deprecating shrug that one of the things he liked was that he owned it.

History does not eliminate grievances. It lays them down like landmines.