They may turn out to be a great disappointment, or perhaps they may be full of enchanting surprises.

A lot of people stop short. They don't actually die but they say, 'Right I'm old, and I'm going to retire,' and then they dwindle into nothing. They go off to Florida and become jolly boring.

I have deliberately left Sylvester and Julia's appearances to the reader's imagination.

We all lie to each other, present some sort of front.

Each marriage has to be judged separately, and we never know what's going on in another person's marriage.

Rebecca is an example of how not to manage men. The rules of the game never change, it requires subtlety.

Of course risk-taking does not always pay off, but it's a lot of fun!