I started making plans, thinking we would get that far.

You should never stick something that you are allergic to into your mouth, especially if that thing is cats.

There is no way of knowing for sure whether or not you can trust someone, for the simple reason that circumstances change all of the time.

The idea that the curtain rises on what is often more or less a happy scene, and it will fall just a few hours later, and everyone will be dead or have gone mad... I find that kind of narrative very appealing.

Frustration is an interesting emotional state, because it tends to bring out the worst in whoever is frustrated.

It is easy to decide on what is wrong to wear to a party, such as deep-sea diving equipment or a pair of large pillows, but deciding what is right is much trickier.

Writing is a dying form. One reads of this every day.