Call me sentimental, but there's no-one in the world that I'd like to see get dysentery more than you

I work three days at home, and two days in the British Library or the London Library, just to get out of the house and hide from the children.

And it was at moments like this that she had to remind herself that she was in love with him, or had once been in love with him, a long time ago.

The fact was I loved my wife to a degree that I found impossible to express, and so rarely did.

She used to pride herself on her refusal to see two sides of an argument, but increasingly she accepts that issues are more ambiguous and complicated than she once thought.

Be good. Do something good.

It's the face itself that I love, not that face at twenty-eight or thirty-four or forty-three. It's that face.