Legends die hard. They survive as truth rarely does.

The faster we travel, the less there is to see.

Age is not important unless you're a cheese.

We may be living in the twentieth century, in resplendent sophistication. But deep down, most of us find ourselves still in the Stone Age of superstition.

Egocentrics are attracted to the inept. It gives them one more excuse for patting themselves on the back.

There's a little vanity chair that Charlie gave me the first Christmas we knew each other. I'll not be parting with that, nor our bed - the four-poster - I'll be needing that to die in.

From your parents you learn love and laughter and how to put one foot before the other. But when books are opened you discover that you have wings.