I never read in bed, only in my study.
A triptych in which the presiding deities are Mother, England and Me.
There are certain people who seem doomed to buy certain houses. The house expects them. It waits for them.
There are two types of people, you see. One type keep their heads straight, and look around as they walk. The others look up - at the tops of houses, at the eaves and the lintels and the roofs, which can tell you when they were built - and I've always done that.
The best years are when you know what you're doing.
The world is a sea in which we all must surely drown.