Whenever I write something, I always want to make sure that what I write is defensible.Salman Rushdie
We confess our little faults to persuade people that we have no large ones.Francois de La Rochefoucauld
I've been married three times. I married the girl next door when I was 22, and I wasn't a good husband, but I wasn't a good anything then. Nowadays, I'm much kinder.Howard Jacobson