I think you're doing better than you were the last time we saw you. You're growing a new heart, for a start.

To be Despair. It is a portrait. Only close your eyes and feel.

I'm writing. The pages are starting to stack up. My morale is improving the more I feel like a writer.

If ever you get to be my age," said the old woman, "you will know all there is to know about regrets, and you will know that one more, here or there, will make no difference in the long run.

Life is a disease, sexually transmitted and fatal.

Time is fluid here', said the Demon.

There's a glorious sense of freedom in comedy, just allowing myself to tell jokes, allowing myself to interrupt myself and tell old African folk stories that I made up - or didn't - and Jamaican stories.