Everything Was Usual. That Was Depression: Being

Well, The Attractive Thing About The Subject Of Happiness Is That It Is Notoriously Difficult To Write.

Proust Is A Hero Of Mine. I Read 'a La Recherche' In One Go, And I'm A Very Slow Reader. It Had An Astonishing Impact, Reading It On My Own And Being My Main Company. I Think Proust Is The Most Intelligent Person To Ever Have Written A Novel.

Irony Is The Hardest Addiction Of All. Forget Heroin. Just Try Giving Up Irony, The Deep-down Need To Mean Two Things At Once, To Be In Two Places At Once, Not To Be There For The Catastrophe Of A Fixed Meaning.

The Thing About The 'melrose' Novels Is That I Have To Feel They're Impossible When I Set Out.

I'm Not Trying To Uncover The Facts Of My Life But To Discover The Dramatic Truth Of The Situations I Was In.