To be known so well by someone is an unimaginable gift. But to be imagined so well by someone is even better.

All we are is eyes looking for the unbroken or the edges where the broken bits might fit each other.

The proper word for me," Robin Goodman says, "is me.

Google is so strange. It promises everything, but everything isn’t there. You type in the words for what you need, and what you need becomes superfluous in an instant, shadowed instantaneously by the things you really need, and none of them answerable by Google.

The whole point is, we can forget. It’s important that we forget some things. Otherwise we’d go round the world carrying a hodload of stuff we just don’t need.

A game one of my sisters will play with me in my first year of being alive is called Good Baby, Bad Baby. This consists of being told I am a good baby until I smile and laugh, then being told I am a bad baby until I burst into tears. This training will stand me in good stead all through my life.

Fashion is fickle, and I was published because I was fashionable. Because I was gay.