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

We're working-class people, which means we don't get rich or have maids. Be content with what you are and what you have.

I am writing a sequel to The Touch because I want to further explore the Chinese question that I have raised. There will be more about that in a sequel.

Perfection, in anything, is unbearably dull. Myself, I prefer a touch of imperfection.

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

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

...she looked like the sort of woman most men would want to get to know because they weren't sure what went on inside.