Good Material

by Dolly Alderton

I can already see how retrospect is going to give that time a different atmosphere than was there in the actual living of it.

And I know I have power in the world just by being a man, I know that, but I also don’t really have any—I’m a balding, failed comedian with no savings who lodges with a seventy-eight-year-old tinned soup collector.

“Life is a bit more difficult for women. More difficult than it is for us, I mean. And you don’t need to ask them to explain why or understand it all. You just need to be nice to them.”