I just wish, when neither of us has written to my husband's mother, I didn't feel so much worse about it than he does.

Does anybody who gave up smoking to save a pound a week have a pound at the end of the week? Not on your life.

Why do born-again people so often make you wish they'd never been born the first time?

It has long been my boast that I can read or eat anything. But unfortunately, although I eat like a Hoover, I read so slowly that I am always on the smart book three years after everyone else has finished.

It is a pity that so often the only way to treat girls like people seems to be to treat them like boys.

No nice men are good at getting taxis.

As anyone who has ever fallen foul of an airport, a conventional hospital or a bad restaurant knows, misery is made up of little things.