For me, George Saunders novel [Lincoln in the Bardo] is about a problem of pain.

She wore her sexuality with an older woman's ease, and not like an awkward purse, never knowing how to hold it, where to hang it, or when to just put it down.

(Feedback) People become addicted to it. That’s why journalism is so popular, because you want to hear, every day, what people think of what you just wrote. I think a little patience on that front can be good, too.

Oh, I know that. You know me, baby, I cannot be broken. Takes a giant to snap me in half.

Tell the truth through whichever veil comes to hand - but tell it. Resign yourself to the lifelong sadness that comes from never ­being satisfied.

Then he gave her a kiss on the forehead that felt like a baptism and she wept like a baby.

Are there other people who, when watching a documentary set in a prison, secretly think, as I have, 'Wish I had all that time to read'?