The imagination can be dangerous. It can change the world. And that is why we write.

My daughter is a fantastic travelling companion - she's totally organised, whereas I'm hopeless.

Staying alive was what we did to pass the time.

I didn't seem to have that effect on anyone but it would have been a waste for both of us to be saints.

The things that break your heart when you think there`s nothing left to break

The facts of his existence are plain. I know that he will never silence those unspeakable voices. He heard how people killed, and how they died and their voices infected him, coursed through his body, poisoned him. He didn't know how to turn off the noise, or turn the hate back out onto the world like the rest of us. He turned it on himself. You could see that from the scars on him.

It's a strange sensation to live inside another person's life, to wonder all the time what he is doing, or thinking or feeling.