People try much less hard to make a marriage work than they used to fifty years ago. Divorce is easier.

They may turn out to be a great disappointment, or perhaps they may be full of enchanting surprises.

That image of the countryside being a threatening place still exists. People continue to resist the challenge of learning about aspects of life they don't understand.

Twenty years ago, I was living in a lovely cottage on the edge of Dartmoor but I couldn't afford to run a car.

Unimaginative people are spared quite a lot. They're often much happier, because they don't go through all the variety of conceptions of the person they love.

I always read that men don't like intelligent girls, but I've always found the reverse.

Rebecca is an example of how not to manage men. The rules of the game never change, it requires subtlety.

I was sent to a finishing school, which didn't last long when mother found out how badly chaperoned we were. Then I 'came out' before going to a domestic science school.

Unimaginative people are spared quite a lot.

I have a garden, and I'm passionately interested in young people.

My father was a soldier and my mother was a great mover. She once counted up how many places she had lived in during the first 25 years of her marriage and it came to 20.

Never close your lips to those whom you have already opened your heart.

Our guardian angels love us unconditionally, and they never leave us.

To be busy is man's only happiness.

I never thought about the green, but LA has a lot of greenery.

Try as I might, I could never feel any great affection for a man who so much resembled a Baked Alaska - sweet, warm and gungy on the outside, hard and cold within.

If a man is to be obsessed by something, I suppose a boat is as good as anything, perhaps a bit better than most.

One must cast off old agonies as a snake casts off its skin--only to grow a new set and accept all of their limitations.

People rewrite the play so much to make it palatable to the audience, to make something clear, that they just deaden it. Like it was left it in the oven too long.

Never be comfortable.... .with just good enough.

They change the sheets every day... from one bed to another.