The health of our seas determines the future of humanity.

Wherever I went I felt like the last person awake in a room full of sleepers

It's sadness coming on like the old days, the vast seamless hopeless weight of sadness looking for a place to rest.

And you can't help but worry for them, love them, want for them - those who go on down the close, foetid galleries of time and space without you.

I was in my thirties before I learnt that I too would prefer not to see what I could no longer have

Every great moment of social change was once a confirmed impossibility. People's determination in the face of overwhelming odds has, time and again, triumphed over what seems impossible. This is what you tell yourself.

It's terrifying to think you can remember things you shouldn't possibly be able to. It's like that childhood fear of having your soul slip from your body in your sleep. The darkness, those black sheets of glass sliding over you, upping the pressure, pushing you through the time and space and story.