"Once you have suffered sufficiently, the idea of making up John and Jane and having them do things together seems utt…"

"I annoy everybody, not just certain women…I think it is because I'm not interested in the group, only in the individu…"

"A journalist recently told me that she had been sent to find out who I was. [...] There seems to be some problem abou…"

"I can't even remember Saving Agnes. I haven't read it in years and years. I don’t think I could read it. It's a stran…"

"I could almost divide my life on either side of this line, between the things that are real and the things that are i…"

"Cusk herself seems extraordinary — a brittle little dominatrix and peerless narcissist who exploits her husband and h…"

"The twentieth century had conclusively settled the question of how a society should be organised: liberal democracy, …"

"For James, there was no sense that expanding Tesco’s sales onto the web was what the human race urgently needed. It d…"

"It was insane that you had to pretend to be interested in your job and use these lame phrases like “pinging things ov…"

"James had assumed this would be a task of meticulous detection, of inefficiencies brilliantly uncovered, but there wa…"