When the loo paper gets thicker and the writing paper thinner, it's always a bad sign, at home.

Sun, silence, and happiness.

Life itself, she thought, as she went upstairs to dress for dinner, was stranger than dreams and far, far more disordered.

Most people like reading about what they already know - there is even a public for yesterday's weather.

People in towns are always preoccupied. 'Have I missed the bus? Have I forgotten the potatoes? Can I get across the road?

One thing about tourists is that it is very easy to get away from them. Like ants they follow a trail and a few yards each side of that trail there are none.

If one can't be happy, one must be amused.