Democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people by the people for the people.
The Soviet Union was a civilization of fear, where people lived in constant dread of the knock on the door at night.
Writing is a form of freedom.
If my world were to cave in tomorrow, I would look back on all the pleasures, excitements and worthwhilenesses I have been lucky enough to have had. Not the sadness, not my miscarriages or my father leaving home, but the joy of everything else. It will have been enough.
"The past is never dead. It’s not even past."