No one seemed able to look at themselves, coolly, from the outside. Their reality was all that could be seen in the light cast ahead by their own wishful thinking.

One friend dies and we remain indifferent; another dies, perhaps less intimate, and we see ourselves as dead, and weep, mourn, tear our hair or find ourselves caught up in the madness of the wake, competing with others as to who was closest, now suffers most.

Take me! Well, not quite take me, love me now, take me eventually

My experience of men in cars has always been that if you don't want them to do something, they will. It is when they are behind a wheel that they most fear the control of women and children.

Pride is what you can afford or think you can afford.

If you do nothing unexpected, nothing unexpected happens.

Words are not simple things: they take unto themselves, as they have through time, power and meaning.