Were we closer to the ground as children, or is the grass emptier now?

We were put to Dickens as children but it never quite took. That unremitting humanity soon had me cheesed off.

The closer to the ground you can get with the message, the better it is heard. If we don't get over the stigma of HIV/AIDS soon, we will be in a situation where we have a generation that's no longer on this Earth.

Children always assume the sexual lives of their parents come to a grinding halt at their conception.

I do not long for the world as it was when I was a child. I do not long for the person I was in that world. I do not want to be the person I am now in that world then. None of the forms nostalgia can take fits. I found childhood boring. I was glad it was over.

Feeling I'd scarcely arrived at a style, I now find I'm near the end of it. I'm not quite sure what Late Style means except that it's some sort of licence, a permit for ageing practitioners to kick their heels up.