It was a city in which the very old and the awkwardly new jostled each other, not uncomfortably, but without respect;

“The main rule of writing is that if you do it with enough assurance and confide…”

“Living and seizing to live are imaginary solutions. Existence lies elsewhere.”

“Also, in my bedroom, nobody minded if I kept the hall door half-open, allowing …”

“The best way to show people true things is from a direction that they had not i…”