The prize I value most was given to me 60 years ago. I was named the girl with the cleanest fingernails.

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

The sun burnt on, drugging everything with warmth.

Women are programmed to love completely, and men are programmed to spread it around. We are fools to think it's any different.

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.

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