No Pain Is Too Small

The Whole Melrose Series Is An Attempt To Tell The Truth, And Is Based On The Idea That There Is Some Salutary Or Liberating Power In Telling The Truth.

Detachment Is What Interests Me, Seeing How People Couldn't Have Been Any Other Way, How They Were The Product Of Forces That They Had No Control Over.

Everything Was Usual. That Was Depression: Being Stuck, Clinging To An Out-of-date Version Of Oneself.

You Can Only Give Things Up Once They Start To Let You Down.

I See The Author As The Person Who Has Written; The Writer, The One Involved In The Process Of Writing. And They're Not Necessarily Friends. The Writer Is The One I Want To Reinforce; The Author Would Just Feed On The Reviews - So I'm In Favour Of Starving Him.