Do you realise that people die of boredom in London suburbs? It's the second biggest cause of death amongs the English in general. Sheer boredom...

We are all tempted, Mma. We are all tempted when it comes to cake.

It is not enough just to identify a problem; there are plenty of people who were very skilled at pointing out what was wrong with the world, but they were not always so adept at working out how these things could be righted.

I'm very interested in tea. I wouldn't mind being involved in some aspect of the tea industry.

That of all people, it should be him; that took her aback. That the heart should settle on somebody like him; that surprised her. But she was so certain about it, so certain.

The point about love, the essential point, was that we loved what we loved. We did not choose. We just loved.

I have always taken the view that one should never hold against a man anything he says after twelve o'clock at night or after a glass or two of anything.