This is what divorce is: taking things you no longer want from people you no longer love.

- You look fine. - Right. I look fine. Except I don't, said Zora, tugging sadly at her man's nightshirt. This was why Kiki had dreaded having girls: she knew she wouldn't be able to protect them from self-disgust.

The belief that consciousness extends beyond death is surely to put more belief in the permanence of self, not less. That seems to me a comfort that you're allowing yourself.

It's a funny thing about rap, that when you say 'I' into the microphone, it's like a public confession. It's very strange.

I don't actually believe in the extension of consciousness after death.

All novels attempt to cut neural routes through the brain, to convince us that down this road the true future of the novel lies.

Don't confuse honours with achievement.