Like cats and ice cream, showers were among life's simple, uncomplicated pleasures.

I love Christmas. A time to slow down and enjoy life and be with my family and friends. In busy years, it keeps me sane. In bad years, it makes me feel whole again.

[On New York City:] From a dating point of view, it's like a really large rummage sale - lots of strange items, but darned little that you'd want to take home.

My brother said that at Eton, students were told caning builds character. I suppose girls are caned less because we aren't thought to have much character." "Which is the sort of thing males say when they don't know any women.

Like cats and ice cream, showers were among life's simple, uncomplicated pleasures.

Europeans condemned Chinese foot binding, but any society that had invented the corset had a lot to answer for.

If death is inevitable, one should try to die well.