You don't have to be crazy to be a writer, but it certainly does help

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.

But why, she thought wryly, did a man seem more attractive as he became less available? How humbling to think one had so much in common with a cow stretching its neck through a gate for better grass.

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.

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

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

we all grow up thinking our parents found us under cabbage leaves and that sex didn't exist before our personal coming-of-age.