If people want to take their lives and are helped to do so, the punishment is tragic for all concerned.

My perfect day is to work incredibly well in the morning and write something wonderful, then take the dog for a walk and go for a swim in the ladies' ponds on Hampstead Heath or work in my allotment. Then I get tarted up in the evening and go out in London to dinner or the cinema.

One sees more and more people who are miserable and demented and you feel it would be both kind and wise to leave them a few pills.

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