A marriage, even one that goes awry, generates claims and needs that persist like an afterglow long after the emotional fire is burned out.

There is a peacefulness, an air of reflection, about a rocking-chair that attaches to no other moving object.

You can never be too rich or too thin.

A marriage, even one that goes awry, generates claims and needs that persist like an afterglow long after the emotional fire is burned out.

I look a hundred and weigh 110 - you won't love me when you see the wreck England has made me.

Never explain, never complain.

I hate this place. I shall hate it to my grave.