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

one tends to suspect others of what one is guilty of oneself. The unfaithful wife is quick to suspect the husband of infidelity.

People fail you, children disappoint you, thieves break in, moths corrupt, but an Order of the British Empire goes on for ever.

I know that I'm a real writer because sometimes I write a story just because I want to; not because someone's told me to.

I learned that sex was not a question of victory or defeat, of pleasure or profit: of a hand's manipulation and a physical response: I learned that in its purest pleasure it belongs to neither of those who practise it, in the same way as a child belongs to neither parent: it is a free spirit: it simply exists.

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

The prophets of doom, in my experience, are generally ignored and usually right.