For that is what a child should be, and seldom is, the product of man and woman, of opposing natures, unified, however temporarily, by the amazing, circling, weaving dance of love and lust and God's involvement in it.

Preserve your peace of mind. There is not much time; all things end in death. Do not lament the past too much, or fear the future too acutely, ot waste too much energy on other peoples' woes, in case the present dissolves altogether.

Nothing happens, and nothing happens, and then everything happens.

The peculiar need to write is increased, it seems, rather than allayed with practice.

Every time you open your wardrobe, you look at your clothes and you wonder what you are going to wear. What you are really saying is 'Who am I going to be today?

Fiction, on the whole, and if it is any good, tends to be a subversive element in society.

If you do nothing unexpected, nothing unexpected happens.