"Ian McEwan: I guess my starting point would be: the brain is responsible for consciousness, and we can be reasonably …"

"We went to a club where singers and stand-up comedians performed in the hope of being discovered. A thin girl with br…"

"I did not kill my father, but I sometimes felt I had helped him on his way."

"He had once felt light on the ground. He used to think his life was an open-ended adventure, he used to give things a…"

"You want a picture of futility? It's a tunnel in the desert, from nowhere to nowhere, four hundred and fifty feet long."

"Nearby, where the main road forked, stood an iron cross on a stone base. As the English couple watched, a mason was c…"

"Who you get, and how it works out - there's so much luck involved, as well as the million branching consequences of y…"

"We know so little about each other. We lie mostly submerged, like ice floes, with our visible social selves projectin…"

"On a recent Sunday evening, Theo came up with an aphorism: the bigger you think, the crappier it looks. Asked to expl…"

"This is how the entire course of a life can be changed - by doing nothing."