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

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

I am of the firm belief that everybody could write books and I never understand why they don't. After all, everybody speaks. Once the grammar has been learnt it is simply talking on paper and in time learning what not to say.

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

Once the grammar has been learned, writing is simply talking on paper and in time learning what not to say.

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

nothing is so sad as the injustices of old age.