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.

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.

I suppose we all share this pipe-dream of being able to reach out a hand and find anything at will; what is amazing is that we think that good filing could somehow make it comes true. On the contrary: putting a letter into a filing system is like releasing your ferret in the Hampton Court maze.

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

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.

No nice men are good at getting taxis.

The rule is not to talk about money with people who have much more or much less than you.