Love is vivid. I never wanted the pale version. Love is full strength. I never wanted the diluted version. I never shied away from love's hugeness but I had no idea that love could be as reliable as the sun. The daily rising of love.

In the antiseptic world we try to purge ourselves of difficult things. Don't dwell on it, switch off the light and go home. But this is home. I have to be a home to myself. I am the place I come back to and I can't keep hiding difficult things in trunks. Soon the house will be full of trunks and I perched on top of them with the phone saying, "Yes, I'm fine, of course, I'm fine, everything's fine." The trunks shudder.

What can i tell you about the choices we make? Fate reads like the polar opposite of decision, and so much of life reads like fate.

It is a true saying, that what you fear you find.

Ordinary professionalism and 20 years' experience can accomplish a lot, but it can't access the hidden places.

London is a small place, and it is very incestuous. People know where you live. Everybody is sort of on top of each other.

The impulse to worship is impossible to eradicate. Even the most prosaic have to worship something.