Better by far to be good and courageous and bold and to make difference. Not change the world exactly, but the bit around you

…and you smile back and try not to think about the fact that you have nothing, absolutely nothing, to say to each other.

If there's anything I'm keen to get better at in my writing, then it's the writing of prose as opposed to the writing of dialogue.

Alice doesn't seem to mind because she's laughing too, and biting her lip, all doe-eyed, and tossing her freshly washed hair, and Norton tosses his lovely, glossy hair back, and she tosses her hair in return, and he tosses his, and she tosses hers, and it;s like some mating ritual on a wildlife program.

Welcome to the graveyard of ambition.

I identified with Pip from 'Great Expectations,' especially when I was younger; I had the same kind of gaucheness and uncertainty.

So - whatever happened to you?' 'Life. Life happened.