Twelve thousand miles of it, to the other side of the world. And whether they came home again or not, they would belong neither here, nor there, for they would have lived on two continents and sampled two different ways of life.

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

The lovely thing about being forty is that you can appreciate twenty-five-year-old men more.

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

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.

There is no doubt that it is more difficult to read and more difficult to write but I still manage.

I want to know what they look like, their height, and colouring, physique and speech pattens.