People who can write a book usually do.

Never drink black coffee at lunch; it will keep you awake all afternoon.

The male - I have found - is a domestic animal which, if treated with firmness and kindness, can be trained to do most things.

I have a theory that the secret of marital happiness is simple: drink in different pubs to your other half.

Youve simply got to go on and on with your family and friends and tell them how much you love them because you never know whether theyll be there tomorrow, do you?

At home I have big vats of cabbage soup that I make to slim down.

For sheer sexiness, a man must be beautiful. Funny. yes. Clever, no.

I love the long grass coming up to meet the willows.

If you feel compelled to give a New Year's Eve party, don't invite people to arrive too early or they'll go off the boil before midnight.

I was so flattered that someone wanted me to write a book, I said I would. It was published in 1969.

And I would really like to be a grandmother, but only when Felix or Emily meet the right person and are ready.

At this point I'm sure he's more plastic than person, but most people who hate wrinkles become Daleks over time, anyway.

On the stairs he was crying so much he hardly saw where he was going - not a mad boo-hoo but wailing sheets of tears, shaken into funny groans by the bump of each step as he hurried down.

I am more free than I think and more enslaved than I fear.

If you want to make peace, you don’t talk to your friends. You talk to your enemies.

I place a mask on everyday showing I'm alright but am I?

Ignorance is the curse of God knowledge is the wing wherewith we fly to heaven.

Souderton was a good town to grow up in. Everybody knew each other.

You can't get there alone. In fact, you can't get very far at all.

If I feel any sort of emotional upheaval, I go for a jog and I feel better.

The nightmare of the Cold War was nuclear weapons in the hands of an irrational person. I don't want to live through that nightmare.