What did my arms do before they held you?

If only a group of people were more important to me than the idea of a Novel, I might begin a novel.

There ought, I thought, to be a ritual for being born twice - patched, retreaded and approved for the road.

If only I knew what I wanted I could try to see about getting it.

How many different deaths I can die?

I am not a historian, but I find myself being more and more fascinated by history and now I find myself reading more and more about history. I am very interested in Napoleon, at the present: I'm very interested in battles, in wars, in Gallipoli, the First World War and so on, and I think that as I age I am becoming more and more historical. I certainly wasn't at all in my early twenties.

I am gone quite mad with the knowledge of accepting the overwhelming number of things I can never know, places I can never go, and people I can never be.