Every time you open your wardrobe, you look at your clothes and you wonder what you are going to wear. What you are really saying is 'Who am I going to be today?

Marriage is what happens when one at least of the partners doesn't want the other to get away.

Food is the supremest of pleasures.

Marriage is a very difficult relationship for nearly everyone and I'm sure you shouldn't do it if you want a quiet little easy life.

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.

What makes women happy? Nothing, for more than ten minutes at a time, so stop worrying.

Fiction, on the whole, and if it is any good, tends to be a subversive element in society.