For me, novels coalesce into being, rather than arrive fully formed.

…and there, in the background, the sky’s sediment had sunk to a place where all the woe of the words ‘I am’ dissolved into blue peace. He said it. ‘The ocean.

Assured her I've never loved anyone except myself and have no intention of starting now.

Oh, bein' young ain't easy 'cos ev'rythin' you're puzzlin'n'anxin' you're puzzlin'n'anxin' it for the first time.

Loneliness is an integral part of travelling. I used to think it was the downside to travelling, but now I realise it is a necessary educative part of it to be embraced.

Go to hell, Willy, our souls eat poetry, but one has seven deadly sins to feed!

A half-read book is a half-finished love affair.