The trouble with treating people as equals is that the first thing you know they may be doing the same thing to you.

We must love one another, yes, yes, that's all true enough, but nothing says we have to like each other.

You can make a sordid thing sound like a brilliant drawing-room comedy. Probably a fear we have of facing up to the real issues. Could you say we were guilty of Noel Cowardice?

There are times when parenthood seems nothing more than feeding the hand that bites you.

Are you pro- or anti-macassar?

The universe is like a safe to which there is a combination. But the combination is locked up in the safe.

Pain is the question mark turned like a fishhook in the human heart.