If you, as a parent, raise your children well, they won't need you anymore. If you did it properly, they go away.

Start telling the stories that only you can tell.

The ideas aren't that important. Really they aren't. Everyone's got an idea for a book, a movie, a story, a TV series.

Stories are like spiders, with all they long legs, and stories are like spiderwebs, which man gets himself all tangled up in but which look pretty when you see them under a leaf in the morning dew, and in the elegant way that they connect to one another, each to each.

And I would try and walk far enough away that people would not assume I was with him.

Just go with it. It won't hurt.' I stared at him. Adults only ever said that when it, whatever it happened to be, was going to hurt so much.

I lost some time once. It's always in the last place you look for it.