Things can be funny when people are uneasy. It softens them up and stops them falling asleep on the sofa. I like those moments where people half-smile and half-wince.

He really did not care whether he survived or not, so long as it rendered him unconscious and absolved him of responsibility.

I better make the plot good. I wanted to make it grip people on the first page and have a big turning point in the middle, as there is, and construct the whole thing like a bit of a roller coaster ride...

Well, we're meant to be writing stories today.

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

All the other children at my school are stupid. Except I'm not meant to call them stupid, even though this is what they are.

How pleased we are to have our eyes opened but how easily we close them again.