All this happiness on display is suspect... If they think - and they could be right - that continued torture and summary executions, ethnic cleansing and occasional genocide are preferable to an invasion, they should be sombre in their view.

Screenwriting is an opportunity to fly first class, be treated like a celebrity, sit around the pool and be betrayed.

A story lives transformed by a gesture not made or a word not spoken

When they kissed she immediately felt his tongue, tensed and strong, pushing past her teeth, like some bully shouldering his way into a room. Entering her.

Dearest Cecilia, You’d be forgiven for thinking me mad, the way I acted this afternoon. The truth is I feel rather light headed and foolish in your presence, Cee, and I don’t think I can blame the heat.

I've always thought cruelty is a failure of imagination.

was it possible that i was, in the modern term, in denial?