A good listener is not someone with nothing to say. A good listener is a good talker with a sore throat.

No nice men are good at getting taxis.

Filing is concerned with the past; anything you actually need to see again has to do with the future.

Perennials are the ones that grow like weeds, biennials are the ones that die this year instead of next and hardy annuals are the ones that never come up at all.

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.

Newish friends, if they get ghastly, can be weighed and found wanting, but you'd never do a thing like that to old ones; their terrible habits are just part of the universe.

Whereas a lot of men used to ask for conversation when they really wanted sex, nowadays they often feel obliged to ask for sex even when they really want conversation.