It is the mind that speaks a woman's heart, not the vaginal walls.

In my experience, the most staunchly held views are based on ignorance or accepted dogma, not carefully considered accumulations of facts. The more you expose the intricacies and realtities of the situation, the less clear-cut things become.

It's this mood, these sentiments - the excitement of exploration and the surprises and delights of travel to foreign locales - that I hope to inspire with this book.

Many people will find this book disrespectful. There is nothing amusing about being dead, they will say. Ah, but there is.

Every mode of travel has its signature mental aberration.

You do not question an author who appears on the title page as "T.V.N. Persaud, M.D., Ph.D., D.Sc., F.R.C.Path. (Lond.), F.F.Path. (R.C.P.I.), F.A.C.O.G.

Normally I object to strangers beaming force fields into my brain.