... the most insoluble problems are those which by their very nature can have no space within them for dreams.

And gradually his memory slipped a little, as memories do, even those with so much love attached to them; as if there is an unconscious healing process within the mind which mends up in spite of our desperate determination never to forget.

It's no fun to be a bluestocking in a family of jockstraps.

How frightening, that one person could mean so much, so many things.

I have an editor in my head, that's why I can't read Harry Potter, because Rowling is such a lousy writer.

There's a hell of a lot of horny people out there who are not being gratified in the way they should be.

I think explicit love scenes are a turn off unless it's the kind you read with one hand.