I wrote my earliest piece for The Sunday Times about being a young wife.

Without doubt, keep a diary. From the day you're born, keep a diary, because we all forget things so quickly.

There is something infinitely dingy about the word workshop. Pray that England doesn't become a nation of workshopkeepers.

Bachelors begin at thirty-six. Up till this age they are regarded as single men.

I'm not wild about holidays. They always seem a ludicrously expensive way of proving there's no place like home.

Never drink black coffee at lunch; it will keep you awake all afternoon.

I think we ought to have a kindness year, or a kindness century.