Statistics are designed to keep you safe.

- Jenny Diski

There are some words I find impossibly difficult ... 'Love,' 'feeling' and especially 'happiness' are at the head of the list. This is not because I …

- Jenny Diski

But nothing will persuade me that the mere fact of being in a place is enough in itself to justify the effort of getting out of bed to become a touri…

- Jenny Diski

Everything passes, but nothing entirely goes away.

- Jenny Diski

It isn't important what you do, it is the attitude with which you proceed through the world that matters.

- Jenny Diski

For the most part, quantum theory has been of little practical value in my life.

- Jenny Diski

We were greeted by the minister whose inclusive, non-judgemental smile was no more than a whisker away from a smirk. Have I made it clear? I don't li…

- Jenny Diski

There's a cultural conviction that any 'artist' must have personal suffering to back up their work, otherwise there's something undeserved and theref…

- Jenny Diski

Good writing and dark wit always excite me and they come together thrillingly in this book. It has a quiet grip on the strangeness of the interior an…

- Jenny Diski