“I’m an accountant. I’m interested in things that don’t add up.’Max.”

“I’m just me – half a family, no awareness whatsoever about style, or what’s in and what’s out. I’m not like the lizards. I don’t really even know how I’m supposed to be with a guy that I’m attracted to. I’ve never been a game player. I don’t know how to be coy… or sexy… or whatever. I have no finesse.”

“Men are jealous of every woman, even when they don’t have the slightest interest in her themselves.”

“I'm not paying to have my head shrunk. I'm so interesting they ought to pay me.”

“The characters' lives were so much more interesting than the lonely hearbeat of my own”

“Time is there for a purpose, to keep things in order. Once you change chronology you change history. The past could eat up the present . . .”

“It was an American who said that while a Frenchman's truth was akin to a straight line, a Welshman's truth was more in the nature of a curve, and it is a fact that Welsh affairs are entangled always in parabola, double-meaning and implication. This makes for a web-like interest....”