Now that I have lost you I cannot allow you to develop, you must be a photograph not a poem.

When I say 'I will be true to you' I am drawing a quiet space beyond the reach of other desires.

Literature offers us all, writers and readers, the best method of discovering and retelling the changing story of ourselves. The story is both journey and surprise. And as everyone knows, even the past is altered, depending on, not the facts, but the interpretation.

I can't do it. I've been here before and it's not a room with a view. The only power I have is the negative power of withdrawal. If I don't withdraw I have no power at all. A relationship where one person has no power or negative power, isn't a relationship, it's the bond between master and slave.

I dream of flight, not to be as the angels are, but to rise above the smallness of it all. The smallnesss that I am. Against the daily death the iconography of wings.

The probability of separate worlds meeting is very small. The lure of it is immense. We send starships. We fall in love.

When I look at my life I realise that the mistakes I have made, the things I really regret, were not errors of judgement but failures of feeling.