I think now that being free is not being powerful or rich or well regarded or without obligation but being able to love. To love someone else enough to forget about yourself even for one moment is to be free.

Trust me, I'm telling you stories. ... I can change the story. I am the story.

Fragile creatures of a small blue planet, surrounded by light years of silent space.

The Humans is a laugh-and-cry book. Troubling, thrilling, puzzling, believable and impossible. Matt Haig uses words like a tin-opener. We are the tin.

I have a head for heights it's true, but no stomach for the depths. Strange then to have plumbed so many.

But not all dark places need light, I have to remember that.

I am a writer who happens to love women. I am not a lesbian who happens to write.