It's true: lives do drift apart for no obvious reason. We're all busy people,we can't spend our time simply trying to stay in touch. The test of a friendship is if it can weather these inevitable gaps.

In some ways, you could argue, television is doing far more interesting work than the movies. It's more fulfilling.

We talked filth for a pleasant half hour.

When you experience bereavement at a youngish age, you suddenly realise that life is unjust and unfair, that bad things will happen, and you have to take that on board.

We all possess, like it or not, the people we know, and are possessed by them in turn.

Sometimes limbo is a tolerable place to be stuck.

Humankind can tolerate only so much rejection.