The monarchy is finished. It was finished a while ago, but they're still making the corpses dance.

Adrian Mole's father was so angry that so many pepole got divorced nowadays. HE had been unhappilly married for 30 years, why should everybody else get away?

I am the world's worst diabetic.

Yes - I am usually overweight. I have had to be interested in diet because of being diabetic for 30 years and having kidney failure.

I am surrounded by counselors. My sister is a counselor. My daughter is training to be a counselor. A lot of my friends are counselors.

I never imagined when I began writing in the early 1960s I'd become professional and my life would be transformed.

I think we take it for granted that if you are with your husband after 30 years, then he is the love of your life.