When I Finish A Book, I'm So

When I Finish A Book, I'm So Exhausted That I'm Sort Of Letting Myself Think That This Could Be The End.

Not Even The Brightest Future Can Make Up For The Fact That No Roads Lead Back To What Came Before - To The Innocence Of Childhood Or The First Time We Fell In Love.

I Write Something That I Believe I've Made Up, And It's Only When A Friend Later Points It Out To Me That I Realise I've Been Writing About Myself Again.

With Regard To Power, Women Don't Have The Vanity Men Have. They Don't Need To Make Power Visible, They Only Want The Power To Give Them The Other Things They Want. Security. Food. Enjoyment. Revenge. Peace. They Are Rational, Power-seeking Planners, Who Think Beyond The Battle, Beyond The Victory Celebrations. And Because They Have An Inborn Capacity To See Weakness In Their Victims, They Know Instinctively When And How To Strike. And When To Stop. You Can't Learn That.

The Nature Of Scandinavians Is That They Don't Talk So Much, There Will Be These Dark Secrets, And Most Things Are Under-communicated.