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

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.

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.

a perfectly managed Christmas correct in every detail is, like basted inside seams and letters answered by return, a sure sign of someone who hasn't enough to do.

No nice men are good at getting taxis.

It's a pity more men are not bastards by birth instead of vocation.

In hell they will bore you, in heaven you will bore them.