Some lesser husbands built a latrine on the hillside.

You can't deny what you've learned; you can't deny your travels; you can't deny the nature of your life.

I read a piece of writing and within a paragraph or two I know whether it is by a woman or not.

Everybody is interesting for an hour, but few people can last more than two.

It has had a calamitous effect on converted peoples. To be converted you have to destroy your past, destroy your history. You have to stamp on it, you have to say 'my ancestral culture does not exist, it doesn't matter'.

One isn’t born one’s self. One is born with a mass of expectations, a mass of other people’s ideas – and you have to work through it all.

The ancillary aspect of every British city now is the council estate.