Human beings have an inalienable right to invent themselves; when that right is pre-empted it is called brain-washing.

No one goes to the toilet in novels. You'd think none of us had bladders.

If you think you are emancipated, you might consider the idea of tasting your own menstrual blood - if it makes you sick, you've got a long way to go, baby.

Nobody wants a girl whose beauty is imperceptible to all but him...

Even crushed against his brother in the Tube the average Englishman pretends desperately that he is alone.