we all grow up thinking our parents found us under cabbage leaves and that sex didn't exist before our personal coming-of-age.

Enigmatic - the quality of keeping silent and making people wonder if one is stupid rather than opening one's mouth and removing all doubt.

My brother said that at Eton, students were told caning builds character. I suppose girls are caned less because we aren't thought to have much character." "Which is the sort of thing males say when they don't know any women.

Europeans condemned Chinese foot binding, but any society that had invented the corset had a lot to answer for.

[On New York City:] From a dating point of view, it's like a really large rummage sale - lots of strange items, but darned little that you'd want to take home.

we all grow up thinking our parents found us under cabbage leaves and that sex didn't exist before our personal coming-of-age.

You don't have to be crazy to be a writer, but it certainly does help