Never demean yourself by talking back to a critic, never. Write those letters to the editor in your head, but don't put them on paper.

And since gin to artifice bears the same relation as tears to mascara, her attractions at once dissembled.

I've never been a teacher in my life.

But, my dear, so few things are fulfilled: what are most lives but a series of incompleted episodes? 'We work in the dark, we do what we can, we give what we have. Our doubt is our passion and our passion is our task...' It is wanting to know the end that makes us believe in God, or witchcraft, believe, at least, in something.

But I know what I like.' She smiled, and et the cat drop to the floor. 'It's like Tiffany's,'she said. 'Not that I give a hoot about jewellery. Diamonds, yes. But it's tacky to wear diamonds before you're forty; and even that's risky.

Love is a chain of love as nature is a chain of life.

Mick Jagger is about as sexy as a pissing toad.