The way of creating believable characters is not by conforming to a set of PC rules.

I find people confusing.

My book has a very simple surface, but there are layers of irony and paradox all the way through it.

The secret of contentment lay in ignoring many things completely.

Everyone has learning difficulties, because learning to speak French or understanding relativity is difficult.

And because there is something they can’t see people think it has to be special, because people always think there is something special about what they can’t see, like the dark side of the moon, or the other side of a black hole, or in the dark when they wake up at night and they’re scared.

And it occurred to him that there were two parts to being a better person. One part was thinking about other people. The other part was not giving a toss what other people thought.