At the end of a miserable day, instead of grieving my virtual nothing, I can always look at my loaded wastepaper basket and tell myself that if I failed, at least I took a few trees down with me.

Maybe one day, I would write a story about arguing in public, and those would come in handy in some way.

I went from having 50 listeners to 50 million listeners.

There is still the outside world to contend with. A world of backfiring cars, and their human equivalents.

As a foreigner in London, I like that there are so many other foreigners.

Lovers of audio books learn to live with compromise.

A zoo is a good place to make a spectacle of yourself, as the people around you have creepier, more photogenic things to look at.