A novelist should make you realize nothing is stable. If you don't believe anything with robustness, you're doing something more radical than anything else.

I took the route favoured by all worldly failures and became a spiritual success.

How do you go on knowing that you will never again - not ever, ever - see the person you have loved? How do you survive a single hour, a single minute, a single second of that knowledge? How do you hold yourself together?

The girls pick snouts from the pack as though they're chocolates and it matters which they select.

It's never over till it's over with a friend.

The perfect bacon sandwich is on white bread, very soft and very thick. Sourdough with a good crust. The bacon is half way to being crispy - and there's lots of it - and enough brown sauce to trickle down your arm. You've not really enjoyed a bacon sandwich unless 10 minutes later you're still licking your wrists.

A novelist should make you realize nothing is stable. If you don't believe anything with robustness, you're doing something more radical than anything else.