I Feel As If I’m Waiting For

He Was Born A Politician. No, Ursula Thought, He Was Born A Baby, Like Everyone Else. And This Is What He Has Chosen To Become.

Jennifer Had Never Liked The Pain Of Remembering What Had Happened, But For Theo It Was The Pain That Kept Laura Alive In His Memory. He Was Afraid That If It Ever Began To Heal She Would Disappear.

(although Anyone With Half A Brain Must Surely Be Mired In Existential Gloom All The Time)

Why Do Cats Sleep So Much? Perhaps They've Been Trusted With Some Major Cosmic Task, An Essential Law Of Physics - Such As: If There Are Less Than Five Million Cats Sleeping At Any One Time The World Will Stop Spinning.

Everyone Said, 'well, You're Very Old For A First Novel,' And I Said, 'how Do You Write When You Haven't Lived? How Do You Write When You Have No Experience? How Do You Write Straight Out Of University?