He was born a politician. No, Ursula thought, he was born a baby, like everyone else. And this is what he has chosen to become.

I can't imagine what it would be like to write in a relaxed state. I'm going to be writing some stories for my own interest. I want to experiment with different things and see if I can approach writing with much less control and in a better psychological state. It will be like breaking out of a straitjacket.

The Grim Reaper, Gloria corrected herself - if anyone deserved capital letters it was surely Death. Gloria would rather like to be the Grim Reaper. She wouldn't necessarily be grim, she suspected she would be quite cheerful (Come along now, don't make such a fuss).

(although anyone with half a brain must surely be mired in existential gloom all the time)

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

Men had no purpose on earth whereas women were gods walking unrecognized among them.

Probably not needing to be published would give me more time to think about a book.