Let's pretend that we're human beings and that we're actually alive.

The schoolteacher is certainly underpaid as a childminder, but ludicrously overpaid as an educator.

Laughter's the nearest we ever get, or should get, to sainthood. It's the state of grace that saves most of us from contempt.

You see I learnt at an early age what it was to be angry - angry and helpless. And I can never forget it. I knew more about - love... betrayal... and death, when I was ten years old than you will probably ever know in your life.

Marriage is rather a silly habit.

In London, love and scandal are considered the best sweeteners of tea.

It is easy to answer the ultimate questions - it saves you bothering with the immediate ones.