With madness, as with vomit, it's the passerby who receives the inconvenience.

I'd the upbringing a nun would envy. Until I was fifteen I was more familiar with Africa than my own body.

FAY: The British police force used to be run by men of integrity. TRUSCOTT: That is a mistake which has been rectified.

People think I write fantasy, but I don't; some things may be exaggerated or distorted in the same way that painters distort and alter things, but they're realistic figures. They're perfectly recognisable.

With madness, as with vomit, it's the passerby who receives the inconvenience.

The kind of people who always go on about whether a thing is in good taste invariably have very bad taste.

Every luxury was lavished on you - atheism, breastfeeding, circumcision.