Once you lose someone it is never exactly the same person who comes back.

So I did quit coffee and I did quit smoking. But I haven't managed that with drinking!

The amount of horror one used to hear about in one village could be quite extreme. But one might not have heard about all the other villages' horrors at the same time.

Seeing yourself as responsible for the quality of your relationship, as a prime mover in your life, I think is a bold, amazing step.

I'm probably so out of it at my age that I don't know what people think.

My poems - I don't even like the sound of that, in a way. Not that anyone else wrote them. But we know that only people who are really close to us care about our personal experience.

At one point I took on a new job, and I just didn't have time to do anything but work.