What I will tell you is that you cannot force yourself to mourn. Sometimes, the best way to honour the dead is to simply keep living.

I was not really aware of the dystopian genre before I read 'The Handmaid's Tale.' Many poets as well, like John Donne and Emily Dickinson, would be the influences; I specialized in Emily Dickinson at university. Both of those poets have really interesting ways of looking at life and death.

London had so much death in its history, it was hard to find a spot without spirits. They formed a safety net. Still, you had to hope the ones you got were good.

But often life asks much of you, and you either honor life by answering with all your heart, or you cower your way into your grave.

How do you mourn something that never really belonged to you?

I have every reason to be sad, but I don't have any reason to mourn. People grieve when things end. Nothing has ended tonight. One of us has simply gone ahead as we always knew it would have to be.