The older one becomes the quicker the present fades into sepia and the past looms up in glorious technicolour

Well, I woke up one morning around Christmas, went as far as the shops, and when I got to the corner I felt this violent pain in me left leg. I mentioned it to my daughter and she took me instantly to the hospital. It turned out it was vasculitis. In other words, you can have your leg off.

no one had experiences any more, only traumas.

I've never been drawn to the feminist movement. I was brought up to believe that men had little to do with the home or children - except to bring in the money.

It is the generation of the unemphatic. Steal, kill, lie, fornicate, but beware of indulging with conviction.

The older one becomes the quicker the present fades into sepia and the past looms up in glorious technicolour

Everything else you grow out of, but you never recover from childhood.