Self Pity Is A Disease

And When Someone Else Speaks Your Name You Feel Pleased. You Feel Wanted. You Feel There. Alive. Even If They're Saying Your Name With Dislike, At Least You Know You're You, That You Exist.

Doing Anything When You're Bored Is Very Very Boring. Anyway, Doing Nothing Is The Point Of Being Bored. The Pleasure Of Being Bored Ismooning About And Doing Nothing.

Readers Are Made By Readers - It Is So Obvious It Is Almost Banal To Say It.

There Are Times When You Don't Know Yourself. There Are Times When You Don't Want To Know Yourself. There Are Times When You Want To Be What You Have Never Allowed Yourself To Be Before.

She Was--i Keep Using The Past Tense; I Ought To Say She Is--one Of Those People Who, At First Sight, Look Plain, Are Quiet, Unassertive, Unmemorable Even. But Who, When They Start To Talk And You Get To Know Them, Become More And More Attractive And Impressive, And You See That In Fact They Are Beautiful. Not Conventionally Beautiful, Not Celebrity Beautiful, But Beautiful All Through.