Perfect love sometimes does not come until the first grandchild.

Somebody has to keep score and I decided I was going to do it. I'm a born score-keeper and I realize, like an umpire, that my decisions may cause distress.

Ideally, the writer needs no audience other than the few who understand that it is immodest and greedy to want more.

We are given our place in time as we are given our eyes: weak, strong, clear, squinting, the thing is not ours to choose. Well, this has been a squinting, walleyed time to be born in.

Yet in a society of conflicting interests the only democratic way in which matters can be improved is through politics, and politics means the compromising of extremes in order to achieve that notorious half loaf which the passionate and the outraged never find sufficient.

I have always found men quite fathomable. They look entirely to their own interest.

We must always remember that the police are recruited from the criminal classes.