Come and see us if you feel like it,' she said. 'I always expect people to ask themselves. Life is too short to send out invitations.

If only there could be an invention that bottled up a memory, like scent. And it never faded, and it never got stale. And then, when one wanted it, the bottle could be uncorked, and it would be like living the moment all over again.

But luxury has never appealed to me, I like simple things, books, being alone, or with somebody who understands.

Come and see us if you feel like it,' she said. 'I always expect people to ask themselves. Life is too short to send out invitations.

Nothing like a cup of tea to make a person feel better, man or woman.

A bad workman blames his tools.

Time will mellow it, make it a moment for laughter. But now it was not funny, now I did not laugh. It was not the future, it was the present. It was too vivid and too real.