I place an enormous premium on loyalty. If someone betrays me, I can forgive them rationally, but emotionally I have found it impossible to do so.
The ease and pleasure of a long marriage is like gold dust. You feel fed and sustained and that you're intimately known.
The Christmas tree goes up on December 1. I love it.
It always depresses me when people moan about how commercial Christmas is. I love everything about it. The tradition of having this great big feast, slap bang in the middle of winter, is an essential thing to look forward to at the end of the year.