“I have to admit that I am in a bit of a predicament." (opening line to 'The Dance of the Pheasodile' where the guy is hanging naked from a helicopter outside his wife's 18th floor office in Central London)”

“Saturday 18th July 19:02TO: [email protected]. Will see you tomorrow. I am just going home for a bit of anal.Saturday 18th July 19:04TO: [email protected] was the auto correct! Not me! My email was meant to read ‘I am just going home for a bit of a nap!’I am tired, I am not, and I never have…Anyway. Looking forward to seeing you tomorrow.Coco.”

“All central beliefs on human matters spring from a personal predicament.”

“i am rejuvenated bones rising from the dear floor where they found you”

“I hit the dance floor, wincing a little bit as the DJ looped feedback through the throbbing of a useless song about someone playing poker with his face or something.”

“I am an ordinary woman who did extraordinary things. The first to qualify as a ground engineer. The first to fly to Australia single-handed. A million people lined the streets of London when I came home. I waved to them from an open-topped car like the queen, the queen of the air.”