Reality TV was to me the worst form of entertainment--the modern equivalent of paying sixpence to watch lunatics howling at the wall down at the local madhouse.

Reading, I had learned, was as creative a process as writing, sometimes more so. When we read of the dying rays of the setting sun or the boom and swish of the incoming tide, we should reserve as much praise for ourselves as for the author. After all, the reader is doing all the work - the writer might have died long ago.

The government was to raise the duty on cheese to 83 percent, an unpopular move that would doubtless have the more militant citizens picketing cheese shops.

I collect ex-boyfriends -- and more than five, at last count.

Marriage is an honorable estate and should not be used simply as an excuse for legal intercourse.

Cats aren't really friendly, they're just cozying up to the dominant life-form as a hedge against extinction.

How many people want to read about three disreputable pigs and a dopey wolf with a disposition towards house demolition?