It Is Horrid To Smirk.

In Terms Of Parenthood, I Think The Pressure Has Amped Up Massively Too. Some Parents Are Setting The Bar Ludicrously High In Terms Of Doing Things "right," And Seeing Children More As Products To Be Perfected Than Simply Children.

Tom Has A Theory That Homosexuals And Single Women In Their Thirties Have Natural Bonding: Both Being Accustomed To Disappointing Their Parents And Being Treated As Freaks By Society.

The Whole Point Of Diaries Is That Other People Find Them And Read What You've Put. I Did Once Take To Writing My Inner Thoughts On The Computer At The End Of Other Things I Was Writing And Ended Up Faxing Four Pages Of Hideous Stuff To My Accountant So I Don't Do That Now.

I Was Writing An Earnest Novel About Cruises In The Caribbean And I Just Started Writing 'bridget Jones' To Get Some Money, To Finance This Earnest Work, And Then I Chucked It Out.

Quite Quickly I Grew Less Deranged. I Had Begun The Process Of Calming Down, Assimilating And Compromising, Which Is Necessary To Live Comfortably In The World As It Is, And Probably Is Why Its Imbalance Never Changes. But Underneath, My Idea Of Life Was Completely Altered.