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

A lot of meetings are held to arrange when to have meetings. ... Meetings today are usually called conferences to make them sound more significant.

If you feel compelled to give a New Year's Eve party, don't invite people to arrive too early or they'll go off the boil before midnight.

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

Leo, sadly, has Parkinsons, but he used to cook all sorts of dazzling things.

I love the long grass coming up to meet the willows.

The aristocrat, when he wants to, has very good manners. The Scottish upper classes, in particular, have that shell-shocked look that probably comes from banging their heads on low beams leaping to their feet whenever a woman comes into the room. Aristocrats are also deeply male chauvinist, and ... on the whole they tend to be reactionary.