The two things most men are proudest of is the thing that any man can do and doing does in the same way, that is being drunk and being the father of their son. ~ Ch. 2

The earth is the earth as a peasant sees it, the world is the world as a duchess sees it, and anyway a duchess would be nothing if the earth was not there as t…

And identity is funny being yourself is funny as you are never yourself to yourself except as you remember yourself and then of course you do not believe yours…

Anything scares me, anything scares anyone but really after all considering how dangerous everything is nothing is really very frightening. ~ Ch. 2

As boys without bonds to their fathers grow older and more desperate about their masculinity, they are in danger of forming gangs in which they strut their mas…

'I'm wicked, as you say, and I'm rude and I'm boorish and I discovered, after marrying Mr Scaddon, that I could be all these things and worse and that there wo…

My dad was great. He was very droll, very dry. The first time that he came to London when I was in the theatre and my name was in lights for the very first tim…