I cannot see myself in a new car. I am a tiny white van person. That is what i want!

Dating is really all about sex. In the conventional context, this means that the man invites the woman to go through a social encounter, the ultimate purpose of which is sexual engagement.

You can go through life and make new friends every year - every month practically - but there was never any substitute for those friendships of childhood that survive into adult years. Those are the ones in which we are bound to one another with hoops of steel.

Small things may be important to us; to be a sometime anything is sometimes something.

Simple questions--and simple answers--were what we needed in life. That was what Mma Ramotswe believed. Yes.

It's a different sort of love taht puts up with illness. Old love.

Every novel presents a slice of life. A noir policier for example presents one slice, one that perhaps addresses social dysfunction or some sort of pathology, while mine present a slice that is more upbeat and affirmative.