Children, I suppose, are always unfinished business: they begin as part of your own body, and continue as separate as another continent.

I have no idea what happens next.

The journey is not linear, it is always back and forth, denying the calendar, the wrinkles and lines of the body.

There's so little wonder left in the world because we've seen everything one way or another'.

In the library I felt better, words you could trust and look at till you understood them, they couldn't change half way through a sentence like people, so it was easier to spot a lie.

Language is a finding place, not a hiding place.

What a strange world this is when you can have as much sex as you like but love is taboo.