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.

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.

Youve simply got to go on and on with your family and friends and tell them how much you love them because you never know whether theyll be there tomorrow, do you?

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

I have a theory that the secret of marital happiness is simple: drink in different pubs to your other half.

The letter of application ... should be a masterpiece of fiction, papering over all the cracks. Get it properly typed on decent writing paper. Never let it run over the page, people get bored with reading.

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