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Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes.
We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.
A good novel tells us the truth about its hero, but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author.
"The present is always invisible because it's environmental and we're fish."
"Art is the lie that enables us to realize the truth."
"We carry our histories with us, in our bones and in our blood."
"Stories have the power to change how we see ourselves and others."
"The past is always present in the way we live now."
"I wanted to write about the Windrush generation because their story is part of British history, but it's a story that hasn't been told enough."
The dog is called Sandy. I like Sandy. He is not clever but he is very cheerful.
I think people believe in heaven because they don’t like the idea of dying, because they want to carry on living and they don’t like the idea that other people will move into their house and put their things into the rubbish.
I do not like proper novels. In proper novels people say things like, ‘I am veined with iron, with silver and with streaks of common mud. I cannot contract into the firm fist which those clench who do not depend on stimulus.’ What does this mean? I do not know. Nor does Father. Nor do the people who write these books.
I like dogs. You always know what a dog is thinking. It has four moods. Happy, sad, cross and concentrating.
All the other children at my school are stupid. Except I’m not meant to call them stupid, even though this is what they are.
I find people confusing.
Sometimes we get sad about things and we don’t like to tell other people that we are sad about them.
I think prime numbers are like life. They are very logical but you could never work out the rules, even if you spent all your time thinking about them.
"We are all alone, born alone, die alone, and—in spite of True Romance magazines—we shall all someday look back on our lives and see that, in spite of our company, we were alone the whole way."
"Life is not a series of gig lamps symmetrically arranged; life is a luminous halo, a semi-transparent envelope surrounding us from the beginning of consciousness to the end."
"We do not write to be understood; we write in order to understand."