People demand a lot of the justice system and they demand things that it can't deliver.

The only thing that I was equipped for with my very mediocre college Arts degree was to get a job in teaching.

But I can't bear it when somebody who some man made a pass at - to call that violence seems to me absurd and insulting to women who've really met violence, who've been raped or bashed.

I like poking my nose into other people's lives.

Well, I'm at some kind of crossroads in my life and I don't know which way to take. It's not about money, I mean, because I'm established enough now as a writer to get a reasonable advance if I wanted to do fiction.

But there are some wounds that can never be healed.

Writers seem to me to be people who need to retire from social life and do a lot of thinking about what's happened - almost to calm themselves.