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.

You said, 'I love you.' Why is it that the most unoriginal thing we can say to one another is still the thing we long to hear?

One thing I am certain of, I do not want to be betrayed, but thats quite hard to say casually, at the beginning of a relationship. It’s not a word people use very often, which confuses me, because there are different kinds of infidelity, but betrayal is betrayal wherever you find it. By betrayal, I mean promising to be on your side, and then being on somebody else’s.

Two hundred miles from the surface of the earth there is no gravity. The laws of motion are suspended. You could turn somersaults slowly slowly, weight into weightlessness, nowhere to fall. As you lay on your back paddling in space you might notice your feet had fled your head. You are stretching slowly slowly, getting longer, your joints are slipping away from their usual places. There is no connection between your shoulder and your arm. You will break up bone by bone, fractured from who you are, drifting away now, the centre cannot hold.

…I noticed a woman whose face was a sea voyage I had not the courage to attempt.

I wanted to write a new fable and see how many rules you could break.

We shall all die, and our lives will be irrelevant then.