She felt listless, tragic, and slightly murderous. She was irritable and prickly with exactly those people who were the kindest to her.
Even now I remember those pictures, like pictures in a storybook one loved as a child. Radiant meadows, mountains vaporous in the trembling distance; leaves ankle-deep on a gusty autumn road; bonfires...
If you love somebody, you love them. My parents had a 25-year age gap between them and my mum was the breadwinner, my dad the house husband. I'm a strong believer that a good relationship can work, wh...
One can talk good and shower down roses, but it's the receiver that has to walk through the thorns, and all its false expectations.
My brother Bob doesn't want to be in government - he promised Dad he'd go straight.
These days we have Smartphones, Smartcars, Smartboards, Smarteverything, but consider this: if technology is getting smarter, does that mean humans are getting dumber?
People and institutions that refuse to admit error eventually discredit themselves.
It's great that people are basically spending their two weeks of vacation to come out and be with us in some weird part of the world. And I think we owe it to them to take 'em to some cool places.
I'm bored with that line. I never use it anymore. My new line is 'In 15 minutes everybody will be famous.'
If my world were to cave in tomorrow, I would look back on all the pleasures, excitements and worthwhilenesses I have been lucky enough to have had. Not the sadness, not my miscarriages or my father l...
Just as a cautious businessman avoids investing all his capital in one concern, so wisdom would probably admonish us also not to anticipate all our happiness from one quarter alone.