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 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.

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

Unimaginative people are spared quite a lot. They're often much happier, because they don't go through all the variety of conceptions of the person they love.

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

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

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