“The Sunday school trip: While us girls were alone, a nasty piece of work called Louise, aged about eleven, decided that it would be a fun idea to hang someone over the cliff ... me!”

“The last chapter in 'Alice in Worcestershire' is called 'Writing the book'.I started to write that 'Diary' chapter at the very beginning of the process and followed it through to the end... speakin...”

“I'm still not sure if I was a victim or not... and if I was, who was my abuser?”

“I’m typing this as loudly as I can to deceive our lovely Indian maid that I can type amazingly quickly and that this is of vital importance, and that’s why I need her to come into the house three t...”

“People can't really sympathize with you properly when you've woken them up”

“Everyone thinks of Anubis as this super jacked up jackal. I find that amusing. I guess he must work out a lot. I guess when you think of it, it is kind of funny. No other picture of gods from that ...”

“Patrick Kenzie asking a bemused waitress for a newspaper in smalltown USA. 'Its like a homepage without a scroll button?”

“To know India and her peoples, one has to know the monsoon. one has to know the monsoon. It is not enough to read about it in books, or see it on the cinema screen, or hear someone talk about it. I...”

“If you just sit and observe, you will see how restless your mind is. If you try to calm it, it only makes it worse, but over time it does calm, and when it does, there's room to hear more subtle th...”

“Sometimes a rut can be a comfortable place to be, but ours was full of too many differences and resentments to be wholly comfortable. I had always had my own way in the marriage about what wed do,...”