If a birth is the fall-out from the explosion caused by the union of two unstable elements, then perhaps a half-life is all we can expect.

Free societies are societies in motion, and with motion comes friction.

I am on Facebook, but mainly as a way to spy on my children. I find out more about them from their Facebook pages than from what they tell me.

The thing that I think was very brave of my younger self was that he decided he would be an idiot. Just persevere. That feels brave to me: deciding that I'm going to damn well be this person that I've set my heart on being.

Things, even people have a way of leaking into each other like flavours when you cook.

Even when things are at their worst, there's a little voice in your head saying, 'Good story!'

O the shame of it, the humiliating shame of being condescended to by dolts