He spits over the side of the tower and pats the handle of the revolver in his belt.

Ali Smith is called “astonishing” by the New York Times and a “a genius” by Alain de Botton.

There won’t be any more taunts. They call him ‘Veg’ but from now on they will call him ‘Meat’.

And I see her, the girl of my crutched dreams – La Gioconda smoking a pipe that’s not a pipe

If you travel far inside the one you love, into the distant continents that lie beyond the breakwaters and the ports of call

Six months before she died – it must have been just before she was diagnosed – I saw her, but she didn’t see me.

When I lived in King’s Cross I used to lie on the bed and listen to my bones melting.

I remove her hands at the wrist without permission because she never touches my dick.

Her teacher asked them to take a piece of paper and write a nice word describing, one by one, everybody in the class.

These are the things I didn’t tell you. 

The naming of the house RENFIELD is an unambiguous reference to Bram Stoker’s Dracula, in which Renfield is a minor character.

These were rough, rivetless, piecework men. I stood there in my pajama pants