Money has to be an explosion of excitement and opportunity, yet we already secretly know that it doesn't do what it promises. Nothing has ever given us as much pleasure as our pocket money when we were 12, or our first wage at the end of that first exhausting week, paid in folded cash.
I don't know if English is the only language where some expressions only and solely mean the opposite of what they say but we do have an awful lot of them.
A lot of London's image never was. There never was a Dickensian London, or a Shakespearean London, or a swinging London.
One of the advantages of being disorderly is that one is constantly making exciting discoveries.
I only published my first novel at the age of 40. Till then, I wrote short stories.
My goal has been to encourage jointness, to push people to think of affiliations rather than to operate as solo entrepreneurs.
To go from Yale to the National League is simply to go from one form of management to another.
As I make my slow pilgrimage through the world, a certain sense of beautiful mystery seems to gather and grow.
When you get to my age life seems little more than one long march to and from the lavatory.
We think of stars as celestial beings. And once in a while, they smile at us from the pages of 'People' magazine.
