Here I am Rock You Like a Hurricane.

Writing is a deep-sea dive. You need hours just to get into it: down, down, down. If you're called back to the surface every couple of minutes by an email, you can't ever get back down. I have a great friend who became a Twitterer and he says he hasn't written anything for a year.

The air is like being wanted, we say, and they nod approvingly. The air is like getting older, they say, and they touch our arms gently.

Why did we do that to Pluto? We had it good with Pluto.

I think I'm far too hopeful and trusting. That's something I got from my mum.

Better to be at the bottom of a ladder you want to climb than in the middle of some ladder you don’t, right?

You can't ever guess at life, at pain. All pain is real, and all pain is personal. It's the most personal thing we have. It eats each of us differently.