Americans, indeed, often seem to be so overwhelmed by their children that they'll do anything for them except stay married to the co-producer.

It has long been my boast that I can read or eat anything. But unfortunately, although I eat like a Hoover, I read so slowly that I am always on the smart book three years after everyone else has finished.

When it comes to housework the one thing no book of household management can ever tell you is how to begin. Or maybe I mean why.

American patriotism is generally something that amuses Europeans, I suppose because children look idiotic saluting the flag and because the constitution contains so many cracks through which the lawyers may creep.

From a commercial point of view, if Christmas did not exist it would be necessary to invent it.

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).

Spring makes everything look filthy.