The white May blossom swooned slowly into the open mouth of the grave.

I have this fantasy. I'm walking past a bookshop and I click my fingers and all my books go blank. So I can start again and get it right.

I think I'm less the writer than I'm the written.

The sentence is the greatest human invention of civilization.

I never went to university. I'm self-educated. I didn't go because I was too impatient, too arrogant.

The white May blossom swooned slowly into the open mouth of the grave.

Perhaps all of life is no more than a long preparation for the leaving of it.