Imagination is not only the uniquely human capacity to envision that which is not, and therefore the fount of all invention and innovation. In its arguably most transformative and revelatory capacity, it is the power to that enables us to empathize with humans whose experiences we have never shared.

Hope springs forever.

I love inventing names, but I also collect unusual names, so that I can look through my notebook and choose one that suits a new character.

You'd think I walk around with my eyes shut, banging off the walls.

Was it love when somebody filled a space in your life that yawned inside you, once they had gone?

Secretly we're all a little more absurd than we make ourselves out to be.

It has certainly never been news to me that a brave and brilliant man could love other men.