It would be nice to turn off that incessant churning of consciousness.

It would perhaps be nice to be alternately the victim and the executioner.

It would be nice to be on the charts again, nice to be recognised.

A tour of the Mexico City of Diego Rivera and Frieda Kahlo led by Barbara Kingsolver would be nice. And I certainly wouldn't turn down a tour of Johannes Vermeer's Delft led by Tracey Chevalier.

American fiction is good. It would be nice if somebody read it.

No one pays me to be nice.