The best thing about flying first class….was that you could be as nutty as a fruitcake and were still treated like the Queen of Sheba.

If there’s one thing I have learned it’s that if you carry on as though nothing strange is happening, it usually stops being strange

[D]espite her alternative leanings, it turned out Crystal was not particularly psyco-babbly or airy-fairy or tree-huggy, as one might have expected.In fact, the first thing she did was write a list. She said writing lists...

She was a great wife…and a wonderful mother, a good daughter, a devoted sister and a truly nice person, which doesn’t sound like much but it was one of her ambitions, to be a nice...

Only worry about what you absolutely know about,’ Mr. Worthington said to me, putting my mind back where it belonged. ‘That’s the key. Worrying about anything else is just a waste of time and emotion....