It was a kiss from the past.

Where I come from," said Archie, "a bloke likes to get to know a girl before he marries her." "Where you come from it is customary to boil vegetables until they fall apart. This does not mean," said Samad tersely, "that it is a good idea.

The future's another country, man... And I still ain't got a passport.

I like books that expose me to people unlike me and books that do battle against caricature or simplification. That, to me, is the heroic in fiction.

There's a perception that novels can't usually allow for your kind of absolute attention to detail.

Oh, I know that. You know me, baby, I cannot be broken. Takes a giant to snap me in half.

Rarely does one see a squirrel tremble.