Sometimes the weekend gets hijacked by work, but as my mother would say, this is the right problem.

There are many nations that have perfected a particular room. You know, you have the French drawing-room, the Austrian ball room, the German dining room, and I think the library is a room the English get right.

I love 'Sex and the City;' I think I've seen every episode.

We live a life that is often spent in crowds - parties, festivals and first nights - so it's nice to avoid them.

No, while most people have been at their unhappiest when in love, it is nevertheless the state the human being yearns for above all.

Harsh reality is always better than false hope.

Lust, that state commonly known as 'being in love,' is a kind of madness. It is a distortion of reality so remarkable that it should, by rights, enable most of us to understand the other forms of lunacy with the sympathy of fellow-sufferers. But, paradoxically, mad and suffering as one is, and the heat of the flame, few of us are glad as we feel that passion slip away No, while most people have been at their unhappiest when in love, it is nevertheless the state the human being yearns for above all.