Just another proof, of course, of what I often say - it takes all sorts to make a world.

I am not always good and noble. I am the hero of this story, but I have my off moments.

Oh, I don't know, you know, don't you know?

I clutched at the brow. The mice in my interior had now got up an informal dance and were buck-and-winging all over the place like a bunch of Nijinskys.

The storm is over, there is sunlight in my heart. I have a glass of wine and sit thinking of what has passed.

Do men who have got all their marbles go swimming in lakes with their clothes on?

She fitted into my biggest arm-chair as if it had been built round her by someone who knew they were wearing arm-chairs tight about the hips that season