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.

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.

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

People who can write a book usually do.

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

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.

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