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.

The disease is painless; it's the cure that hurts.

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.

Find out what you like doing best, and get someone to pay you for it.

I yield to no one in my admiration for the office as a social center, but it's no place actually to get any work done.

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.

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.