It was one of those perfect English autumnal days which occur more frequently in memory than in life.

[My father and his friends] believed in equality for women without troubling to acquire the basic domestic skills which would have made that equality possible.

It was one of those perfect English autumnal days which occur more frequently in memory than in life.

The modern holy trinity is money, sex and celebrity.

Ambition, if it were to be savored, let alone achieved, had to be rooted in possibility.

I find it extraordinary that a straightforward if inelegant device for ensuring the survival of the species should involve human beings in such emotional turmoil. Does sex have to be taken so seriously?

Charm is always genuine; it may be superficial but it isn't false.