When passion is mutual, there is always the danger of the fire burning to ashes.

There is nothing more guaranteed to reduce a man to the essentials than to live beneath the sky.

I've never been put down by a man, unless I deserved it, and have never felt inferior.

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.

What we remember is probably fiction anyway.

The sun burnt on, drugging everything with warmth.

There are many things in this life capable of throwing people off course - the death of someone close, the loss of income or health, the realisation that cherished hopes cannot always be fulfilled