When people use that stream of consciousness, it's kind of just a term they use for anything that looks slightly different on the page.

Some people--Samad for example--will tell you not to trust people who overuse the phrase "at the end of the day"--football managers, estate agents, salesmen of all kinds--but Archie's never felt that way about it. Prudent use of said phrase never failed to convince him that his interlocutor was getting to the bottom of things, to the fundamentals.

Surely there is something to be said for drawing a circle around our attention and remaining within that circle. But how large should this circle be?

Pulchritude--beauty where you would least suspect it, hidden in a word that looked like it should signify a belch or a skin infection.

The idea that motherhood is inherently somehow a threat to creativity is just absurd.

When a human being becomes a set of data on a website like Facebook, he or she is reduced. Everything shrinks. Individual character. Friendships. Language. Sensibility.

English fiction was something I loved growing up, and it changed my life - it changed the trajectory of my life.