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My parents didn't treat me as if there was anything in the world I couldn't do, except be unkind.
Theatre is an exclusive place that tends to be dominated by white men, or dying white men.
I thought that the AIVD was there to protect citizens like me.
I mean being a writer is like being a psychoanalyst, but you don't get any patients.
Just writing and being in the studio was like therapy for me.
Life's more amusing than we thought.
I've found men are less likely to let petty things annoy them.
I do have a thing for eating out; that's one of life's great middle-age pleasures.
I read Carver. Julio Cortazar. Amis's essays. Baldwin. Lorrie Moore. Capote. Saramago. Larkin. Wodehouse. Anything, anything at all, that doesn't sound like me.
