When you fall asleep after a big lunch you're really just saving up energy to work off all the calories later on.

You can't run from feelings, Charity. You have to face them. Otherwise your future will look just like your past.

I'm not particularly keen on pity. Pity takes something away from grief. People think they're sharing it, but really they're just taking some. I prefer to keep my grief intact.

Laughter is just like champagne -- only without the headache afterwards.

The craze of genealogy is connected with the epidemic for divorce. If we can't figure out who our living relatives are, then maybe we'll have more luck with the dead ones.

Sex is like petrol. It's a galvaniser, a wonderful fuel for starting a relationship.

I have lived my life in the slipstream of experience