I wouldn't know how to fool a man any more. My deceiving days seem so long ago.

Amsterdam has more than 150 canals and 1,250 bridges, but it never seems crowded, nor bent and bitter from fleecing the tourist.

It has been said that a pretty face is a passport. But it's not, it's a visa, and it runs out fast.

What sort of sap doesn't know by now that picture-perfect beauty is all done with smoke and mirrors anyway?

Families, generally, suck. And I say that as someone who, like my husband, had parents who proved the proverbial exception to the rule.

The freedom that women were supposed to have found in the Sixties largely boiled down to easy contraception and abortion; things to make life easier for men, in fact.

Here in Barcelona, it's the architects who built the buildings that made the city iconic who are the objects of admiration - not a bunch of half-witted monarchs.

The latest twist on the pampering concept is spa parties, where a group of friends take over an entire spa.

Gluttony and idleness are two of life's great joys, but they are not honourable.

My second husband believed I had such a fickle attitude to friendship that each Friday he would update the list of my 'Top Ten' friends in the manner of a Top Of The Pops chart countdown.

Make no mistake, most women are well aware that they've never had it so good; when they enter a spa or salon, it is purely a hair/nails thing, a prelude to an evening of guilt-free fun.

Love is alive when there's music in your heart.

There are words and accents by which this grief can be assuaged, and the disease in a great measure removed.

Until we can understand the assumptions in which we are drenched we cannot know ourselves.

We cannot take one step in geology without drawing upon the fathomless stores of by-gone time.

The world is not that black and white, Rachel. There are no moral absolutes. It is complex.

We have to do with God, to whom no one can look without the need of being good waking up in his heart; to think about God is to begin to be good.

I don't know that I'm going to entirely do cloth diapers. I'd like to be ambitious about it, but in all honesty, I can't say that I will.

... all professional ideologies are high-minded. Hunters, for instance, would not dream of calling themselves the butchers of the woods.

It is better to travel hopefully than to arrive. Arrival often brings nothing but a sense of desolation and disappointment.

Creativity needs to be taken care of. It's like a big baby that needs to be nourished.