I think predictability is built into any good novel in some way - you begin reading Anna Karenina and you know pretty much what's going to happen at the end. But that doesn't mean you know what's going to happen in the middle. For me, it's that sense of what happens in the middle that's important.

Homeopathy seemed . . . both mathematical and poetic.

Over to my left is the big grey wall in front of the church. Are we the Thoughts of God? a poster asks. No, I realise. It's the reverse.

Routine kills creative thought.

Homeopaths argue that water has a memory.

I hate stereotypes and I hate cliche.

People make events into stories. Stories give events meaning.