Letters are expectation packaged in an envelope.

Good drama should sandpaper the mind.

Faithful horoscope-watching, practiced daily, provides just the sort of small but warm and infinitely reassuring fillip that gets matters off to a spirited start.

Letters are expectation packaged in an envelope.

A handwritten, personal letter has become a genuine modern-day luxury, like a child's pony ride.

Ours was the Togetherness Generation. We equated togetherness with salvation, and expected so much from it that it was bound to let us down. Companionship, security, lifelong physical and spiritual and emotional warmth - all were to be had for the twist of a ring and the breathing of a vow. And to be had no other way.

The paradox of Reality is that no image is as compelling as the one which exists only in the mind's eye.