Meetings ... are rather like cocktail parties. You don't want to go, but you're cross not to be asked.

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.

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

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

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

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

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