There can be nothing more baffling in a human relationship than silence, the dark loom of doubts and questions unexpressed.

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

You have no idea how hard it is to live out a great romance.

The real essence of any marriage that has struggled, however unsuccessfully, towards happiness, lies in the growth of a wordless understanding that what is acceptable to one partner will be acceptable to the other.

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

Never explain, never complain.

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.