Do you know what the difference is between Friendship and Love? Friendship is the photograph, Love is the oil painting.

Should; shouldn't; ought; oughtn't—the enemies of contentment.

The human face does not always reflect the beauty that may repose in the soul.

Marriage is the gold standard of all relationships. It's the currency by which everything is valued.

As an arts journalist in London, working mainly for the BBC, I interviewed hundreds if not thousands of authors. From them I gleaned a great deal of passing instruction in writing and I observed one fascinating detail: no two writers approach their work - physically - in the same way.

Writers have opinions - that, in part, is why they write. Therefore they have strong likes and dislikes.

When I come out on the road of a morning, when I have had a night's sleep and perhaps a breakfast, and the sun lights a hill on the distance, a hill I know I shall walk across an hour or two thence, and it is green and silken to my eye, and the clouds have begun their slow, fat rolling journey across the sky, no land in the world can inspire such love in a common man.