It was a long time ago now. And it was yesterday.

No point in thinking, you just have to get on with life. We only have one after all, we should try and do our best. We can never get it right, but we must try.

I spent four years doing a doctorate in postmodern American literature. I can recognize it when I see it.

Patricia embraces me on the station platform. 'The past is what you leave behind in life, Ruby,' she says with the smile of a reincarnated lama. 'Nonsense, Patricia,' I tell her as I climb on board my train. 'The past's what you take with you.

The beginning is the word and the end is silence. And in between are all the stories.

Sometimes it was harder to change the past than it was the future.

Ethics are not necessarily to do with being law-abiding. I am very interested in the moral path, doing the right thing.