There can be no summary and dramatic end to a marriage - only a slow and painful unravelling of a tangled skein of threads too stubborn to be broken.

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

There can be no summary and dramatic end to a marriage - only a slow and painful unravelling of a tangled skein of threads too stubborn to be broken.

I was a long time learning that wisdom and experience are things apart; that to taste life is not to be confused with understanding what life is really all about.

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

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 never make a trip to the United States without visiting a supermarket. To me they are more fascinating than any fashion salon.