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.

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.

I hate stereotypes and I hate cliche.

I think about stories and their logic and wonder if there can be any such thing as simply "there is a book.

Everything I know I imagine everyone else knows as well. And then everything that everyone else knows I imagine they know on top of what I know, so I'm constantly anxious about what everyone else knows.

In real life nothing means anything. Stuff happens and there just is no structure.

Sometimes you have to trust grownups, perhaps more so when they are not there to actually supervise you.