I'm endlessly intrigued by stories, and I love helping someone to formulate his or her story. I can drift off when I'm reading pure abstraction, but the narratives of human lives hold my attention every time.

I love basketball, but I miss football every time I watch it.

I love sharing my story. It's endlessly healing.

Every time the Tories get a bit of power, they rip off all the things I love... The mining industry. Milk.

A great hope gets crushed every time someone reminds us that happiness can be neither assumed nor earned; that we are all prisoners of our own flawed brains; that the ultimate aloneness in each of us is, finally, inviolable.

I don't use the phrase 'I love you' very often, but I say it every time I talk to my children.