Children and zip fasteners do not respond to force ... except occasionally.

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

Spring makes everything look filthy.

There's comfort to an awful old dressing-gown a pretty peignoir is powerless to provide, and aging bra elastic, is, I suspect, as near to liberation as most women ever get.

I cannot for the life of me see why the umpires, the only two people on a cricket field who are not going to get grass stains on their knees, are the only two people allowed to wear dark trousers.

It would be nice to think that a censor could allow a genuine work of artistic seriousness and ban a titillating piece of sadism, but it would take a miracle to make such a distinction stick.

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