I'm not sure if you're the person for me any more.

The very reason I write is so that I might not sleepwalk through my entire life.

13.5 Mrs. Wolfe asks whether Mr. Iqbal expects her Susan to undertake compulsory headstands. 13.6 Mr. Iqbal infers that, considering Susan's academic performance and weight problems, a headstand regime might be desirable.

The nineties, ecstatic decade!

I wrote 'White Teeth' in the late nineties. I didn't really feel trepidatious about it. It was a different time.

I never attended a creative writing class in my life. I have a horror of them.

Desperation, weakness, vulnerability - these things will always be exploited. You need to protect the weak, ring-fence them, with something far stronger than empathy.