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Everything's complicated, even those things that seem flat in their bleakness or sadness.

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It's not a case of the glass being half full or half empty; more that we tipped a whole half-pint into an empty pint pot. I had to see how much was th...more

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And another way of explaining it is to say that shit happens, and there's no space too small, too dark and airless and fucking hopeless, for people to...more

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Hard is trying to rebuild yourself, piece by piece, with no instruction book, and no clue as to where all the important bits are supposed to go.

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There isn't so much to be afraid of, out there. I can remember thinking it was funny to find that out, on the last night of my life; I'd spent the res...more

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Will wrestled with his conscience, grappled it to the ground and sat on it until he couldn't hear a squeak out of it.

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That was his mother. When she wasn't crying over the breakfast cereal, she was laughing about killing herself.

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There had been times when he knew, somewhere in him, that he would get used to it, whatever it was, because he had learnt that some hard things became...more

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I fell in love with football as I was later to fall in love with women: suddenly, inexplicably, uncritically, giving no thought to the pain or disrupt...more

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my friends don't seem to be friends at all but people whose phone numbers I haven't lost.

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People worry about kids playing with guns, and teenagers watching violent videos; we are scared that some sort of culture of violence will take them o...more

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Have you got any soul?" a woman asks the next afternoon. That depends, I feel like saying; some days yes, some days no. A few days ago I was right out...more

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The unhappiest people I know, romantically speaking, are the ones who like pop music the most; and I don't know whether pop music has caused this unha...more

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You don't ask people with knives in their stomachs what would make them happy; happiness is no longer the point. It's all about survival; it's all abo...more

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That is another chamber of my heart that shows no electrical activity - the chamber that used to flicker into life when I saw a film that moved me, or...more