Isola doesn't approve of small talk and believes in breaking the ice by stomping on it.

In a good mood I call my hair Chestnut with Gold Glints. In a bad mood, I call it mousy brown

I am to cover the philosophical side of the debate and so far my only thought is that reading keeps you from going gaga.

Treat a dog right and he'll treat you right - he'll keep you company, be your friend, never ask you no questions. Cats is different, but I never held that against them.

Then i imagined a lifetime of having to cry to get him to be kind, and I went back to no again.

I don't want to be married just to be married. I can't think of anything lonelier than spending the rest of my life with someone I can't talk to, or worse, someone I can't be silent with.

When I got up this morning the sea was full of sun pennies - and now it all seems to be covered in lemon scrim. Writers ought to live far inland or next to the city dump, if they are ever to get any work one. Or perhaps they need to be stronger-minded than I am.