I Would Have Been A Disaster As

You're Only Young Once, They Say, But Doesn't It Go On For A Long Time? More Years Than You Can Bear.

The More Facts I Can Have, The Better. I Can Operate Very Nicely Between Them, But I Am Not Very Good At Making Things Up. I Am Not Sure How Ethical It Is.

[h]ope Takes You By The Throat Like A Stranger, It Makes Your Heart Leap.

If I Am Feeling Broken, I Can Pick Up One Of [ivy Compton-burnett] Books And The Next Morning I Can Write Again. It Puts My Mechanism Back.

Insights Don't Usually Arrive At My Desk, But Go Into Notebooks When I'm On The Move. Or Half-asleep.