One Could Drown In Irrelevance.

You Can Spin Stories Out Of The Ways People Understand And Misunderstand Each Other.

For Children, Childhood Is Timeless. It Is Always The Present. Everything Is In The Present Tense. Of Course, They Have Memories. Of Course, Time Shifts A Little For Them And Christmas Comes Round In The End. But They Don't Feel It. Today Is What They Feel, And When They Say 'when I Grow Up,' There Is Always An Edge Of Disbelief - How Could They Ever Be Other Than What They Are?

And Though You Think The World Is At Your Feet, It Can Rise Up And Tread On You.

There Are Ways In Which Art Can Have A Longer Reach Than Politics.

A Twenty-one-year-old Writer Is Likely To Be Inhibited By A Lack Of Usable Experience. Childhood And Adolescence Were Something I Knew.