...he felt frustrated, his sense of fate and direction subverted by banalities - the frustration of the man who, having thought himself following his destiny, finds he is actually on the A318 to New Malden.

...action restarting action: all we need to reverse inertia is some sense of consequence - some sense that beyond this occurrence there is another, and that th…

That's the thing about your destiny: how are you supposed to know it when it arrives? How are you supposed to recognise it from the random life?

If you find yourself born in Barnsley and then set your sights on being Virginia Woolf it is not going to be roses all the way.

I'm sorry to say so But, sadly it's true That bang-ups and hang-ups Can happen to you.

You see, she was gonna be an actress And I was gonna learn to fly. She took off to find the footlights, And I took off for the sky. And here, she's acting happ…