Beat it.

Leo: Brazil.  I need Brazil, the throb, the thrill - I've never been there, but someday I will.

Leo: Ha, only to get access to something I couldn't otherwise.

There is no god.  There's no big guy with a beard judging us.  There is no one keeping score.  Life has no meaning except that we attribute to it ourselves.  There's no hell except that created by arrogant masochists who believe that some being - who, they claim, created the entire world ( Read more... )

So, I've decided to answer some of these as characters from my novels. For practice.

Mina: My city.

Leo: I am the visitor.

That would involve having a religion in the first place.

My father's family are Hindu.  My mother isn't religious.  I was sent to a Catholic school.

At the minute, I don't know if god exists.  I doubt it, but it's possible.  I don't think it really matters much.  If there is a god, I don't think he would be petty, or vain.  I think what you do is ( Read more... )

I have a highly overactive imagination, so I'm scared a lot of the time.  Ever since I was small, I've had regular nightmares.  So, my bed is one of the scariest places, for me.

When I was younger, I would imagine being cradled to feel comforted.  Now, I end up picturing the empty space beyond the wall next to me.  I imagine being deep in a cave, at ( Read more... )

I always accept apologies.

The phrase "forgive and forget" doesn't quite make sense.  You can't really do both.  I suppose you can do one and then the other, but, so far, I've only managed to do one in each case.:(