So tired in the car today that I kept swerving onto line dividers coming up the 280. Efforts to find abrasive music on iPod only exacerbated matters.

snippet #10

The more invested in something I am, the more retrospectively ashamed of it I will be.

Why I would be a bad journalist

"Hatred is a failure of the imagination."

"Why do the indignant tell so many lies?"

snippet #8

What is it that is so delightful about a dog?

snippet #7

Dear XXX,
Thank you for such a simple evening yesterday.
XXX

snippet #6

"Yeah," I scoffed, "but that's just semantic, isn't it?"
"Semantics means meaning," he responded, "so yes - it is."

snippet #5

She had made some delicious pasta sauce - reduced tomatoes and courgettes - "I wish courgette meant 'King's vegetable'" I said, and we curled up on the sofa and cuddled and giggled and she nudged my cheek with my nose, but I was already smiling and smiling

snippet #4

A white plastic bag just floated over Westminster Abbey and into a cloud. All three are very white, all three caught and gleaming in the sunlight, only two of them moving towards each other on a collision course. The sky is blue, even though the light is golden.

snippet #3

"To like something is to want to ingest it and, in that sense, submit to the world; to like something is to succumb to death, [whereas] dislike is in some measure a triumph of definition, distinction and discrimination - a triumph of life."

snippet #2

Already you can see that delimitation is happening.

snippet #1

"What kind of man will you be? Will you be a rich man?"
"I hope I'm the kind of man who never stops thinking about aesthetics."

How many employees of the Office for National Statistics does it take to change a lightbulb?

One.