My daughter is a fantastic travelling companion - she's totally organised, whereas I'm hopeless.

The real truth is that the war didn't have much to do with it except that it provided a perfect limbo in which two people who were too young and too related could start kissing without anything or anyone making us stop.

Now let's try to understand that falling into sexual and emotional thrall with an underage blood relative hadn't exactly been on my list of Things to Do while visiting England,but I was coming around to the belief that whether you liked it or not, Things Happen and once they start happening you pretty much just have to hold on for dear life and see where they drop you when they stop.

I frightened myself. I became the ghost Piper was so scared of.

Every war has turning points and every person too.

If there was ever a more perfect day in the history of time it isn't one I've heard about.

The average attention span of the modern human being is about half as long as whatever youre trying to tell them.