Being young is not having any money; being young is not minding not having any money.

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.

Things a mother should know: how to comfort a son without exactly saying Daddy was wrong.

No nice men are good at getting taxis.

There are some circles in America where it seems to be more socially acceptable to carry a hand-gun than a packet of cigarettes.

An office party is not, as is sometimes supposed, the Managing Director's chance to kiss the tea-girl. It is the tea-girl's chance to kiss the Managing Director (however bizarre an ambition this may seem to anyone who has seen the Managing Director face on).

Have you ever taken anything out of the clothes basket because it had become, relatively, the cleaner thing?