marriage is an extraordinary thing - and I doubt if any outsider - even a child of the marriage - has the right to judge.

fiction is founded on truth....unless things did happen,people couldn't think of them.

You know, Emily was a selfish old woman in her way. She was very generous, but she always wanted a return. She never let people forget what she had done for them - and, that way she missed love.

In the midst of life, we are in death.

Coffee in England always tastes like a chemistry experiment.

It's like all those quiet people, when they do lose their tempers they lose them with a vengeance.

Achievement brings with it its own anticlimax.