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.

My first husband would never make up his mind in less than five years, so I used to get him to think that whatever course of action needed to be taken was his idea. Then he'd go right ahead.

I was sent to a finishing school, which didn't last long when mother found out how badly chaperoned we were. Then I 'came out' before going to a domestic science school.

People try much less hard to make a marriage work than they used to fifty years ago. Divorce is easier.

I found out only recently that we were making an index of enemy code signs.

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

I don't write for any particular kind of person.