I thought I'd definitely be a writer, whatever I did.

The principle was, death should not be entered like some snug harbor. It should be an unambiguous refusal to surrender.

You know, so I was a weird eccentric kid but I did believe in the power of the word and of the word being made flesh I suppose, which again I suppose came from my temperament as well as my upbringing.

But I was also a brat. I used to belong to a gang that went looking for fights with other gangs.

Personal finances are like people’s personal health, crucial and tragic to the sufferer but tedious to the listener.

Coitus is random, children are definite.

Um, what I found though about the Christian Brothers is this: that they were certainly muscular.