To Love Means To Realize There Is

My Parents Gave Up A Lot To Bring Me Up In The Little House On The Prairie, And I Wasn't Prepared To Make Those Sacrifices, Nor Was The Generation Before Me And The Generation After.

People Are Always Surprised At What A Nice Guy I Am.

Largely This Is A Class Thing - Writers Tend To Be Cosseted Little Middle-class Kiddies Who Think That The World Owes Them A Royalty Cheque. But Just Doing It - Being In Your Room For Years On End, Locked In Your Head, Alone With Invented Ghosts - It Weakens And Softens The Body. And I Know I Can't Just Live In My Head.

It Felt Natural. That Is What I Remember Most About Becoming A Father Halfway Through My 20s. As If Mother Nature Was Giving Me The Big Thumbs Up.

It's Painful And It's Messy. But Sometimes You Just Have To Make The Break And Start Again.