hurting other people is not excusable because you've been hurt yourself.

The memo's chief function ... is as a track-coverer, so that you can turn on someone six months later and snarl: 'Well, you should have known about it, I sent you a memo.

in a village you can't sack or fight with someone, as you'll find yourself stuck beside them in the hairdresser's next morning.

Go to lots of interviews, at least one a month even when you don't need a job, to keep in training for when you do.

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

The only thing a whirlwind courtship does is blow dust in everyone's eyes.

I was so flattered that someone wanted me to write a book, I said I would. It was published in 1969.