The Peculiar Striations That Define Someone's Personality

Why Did I Start With Them? Why Do Any Of Us Choose One Company Over Another As An Employer? The Money? At The Beginning They All Offer More Or Less The Same And No One Know How It Will Go After That. I Guess It Is Often Not So Much Your Prospects At A Particular Firm, Because These Are Essentially Unknowable, But Whether People Will Think You Have Done Well To Get The Job There, That Determines You Choice. That Was Largely It In My Case. It Was Really The Prestige. They Gave Good Letterhead.

At Difficult Times Of My Life, Books Have Been An Incredible Comfort. When I Was 12, I Changed Schools And My Parents Split Up. It Was Then That I Became Addicted To Reading. A Great Writer Can Attach Themselves To Your Mind And Heart, And You Feel You Understand The World Better. As Long As You Have The Capacity To Read, You Needn't Be Alone Any More. I Remember Thinking As A Child, "if I Could Give One Person The Comfort I Keep Getting From Books, Then I Want To Write."

[memory] Visits When It Is Hungry, Not When You Are.

What Is It About Men That Make Women So Lonely?

There's The Ambiguity Of Human Relationships, For Instance. A Relationship Between Two People, Just Like A Sequence Of Words, Is Ambiguous If It Is Open To Different Interpretations. And If Two People Do Have Differing Views About Their Relationship - I Don't Just Mean About Its State, I Mean About Its Very Nature - Then That Difference Can Affect The Entire Course Of Their Lives.