Very suddenly. Yes, quite suddenly, I didn't feel like I could handle my feeling of aloneness.

I feel the fear, but I walk fast toward it.

But neither of us knows, because a fight's worth nothing if you know from the start that you're going to win it.

The human child – so much cannier at times than the stupefyingly ponderous adult.

I see Death as the part of us that knows all the time that we're going to die, reminding us to live properly.

In years to come, he would be a giver of bread, not a stealer - proof again of the contradictory human being. So much good, so much evil. Just add water.

The nightmares arrived like they always did, much like the best player in the opposition when you've heard rumors that he might be injured or sick-but there he is, warming up with the rest of them, ready to take the field.