I have a healthy appetite for solitude. If you don't, you have no business being a writer.
Will SelfAs a bookish adolescent, I sopped up texts as if I were blotting paper and they were fluid.
Will SelfThe cynics are correct the sense of freewill is only that feeling which we have when we take the necessitated option that most appeals to us.
Will SelfOf course, with well-masticated food playing the role of social glue, it's absolutely essential that everyone clear their plate. Sod the starving kiddies in Africa - it's the overfed ones here we need to worry about.
Will Self