I wouldn't say when you've seen one Western you've seen the lot; but when you've seen the lot you get the feeling you've seen one.

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).

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.

The Life and Soul, the man who will never go home while there is one man, woman or glass of anything not yet drunk.

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

In my next life I want to be a pessimist. Then other people could spend all their time cheering me up.