I have fits of melancholia when I watch the news, but we all do, don't we?

My parents came from different backgrounds. My father's was grander than my mother's, so my mother had... to put up with the disapproval of my father's relations.

I always like to arrive at the airport early to enjoy breakfast and lounge about so that when I get on the plane all my travel fever has disappeared.

The business of life is learning that you can't lay down the terms.

I have derived enormous confidence from being a husband and father.

In my defence I can only say that her past, too, like mine, like everyone's in fact, was a locked box. Occasionally we allow people a peep, but generally only at the top level. The darker streams of our memories we negotiate alone.

It's the gloomy things that need our help, if everything in the garden is sunny, why meddle?