I haven't always been a writer and I suppose I tiptoed around the idea of writing full time, because it's so isolating.

Sometimes it takes more courage not to let yourself see. Sometimes knowledge is damaging - not enlightenment but enleadenment. If one recognizes the difference and prepares oneself - it is extraordinarily brave. Because when it comes to certain human miseries, the only witnesses should be the pavement and maybe the trees. (Gareth van Meer)

I was aware now, as ever, that between all people there were First Times You See Them and Last Times you See Them.

...I couldn't let go of the thought that it had, in fact, been he, restless and moody Heathcliff. Day after day, he floated through all the Wal-Marts in America, searching for me in a million lonely aisles.

To be next to her was to have everything.

It was as if Hannah had sprung a leak and her character, usually so meticulous and contained, was spilling all over the place.

Occasionally when I'm procrastinating writing, I'll while away the hours on iTunes. You can just keep going forever and find these bands you'd never normally hear of.