Vocabularies are crossing circles and loops. We are defined by the lines we choose to cross or to be confined by.

Where would we be without inhibitions? Theyre quite useful things when you look at some of the things humans do if they lose them.

Well, I would hardly say I do write as yet. But I write because I like words. I suppose if I liked stone I might carve. I like words. I like reading. I notice particular words. That sets me off.

There is a certain aesthetic pleasure in trying to imagine the unimaginable and failing, if you are a reader.

One does not remember the winners. One remains haunted by the losers.

I like feeling my way into different minds and experiences. It comes naturally and always has.

Biographies are no longer written to explain or explore the greatness of the great. They redress balances, explore secret weaknesses, demolish legends.