Never use a conditional tense when it comes to money. - Edward St Aubyn

Without speech, thoughts plough on like a train without tracks, buckling, crashing, ripping everything apart.

They said it was the only way to stop her running up debts, but the best way to stop her running up debts was to give her more money.

The idea that an afterlife had been invented to reassure people who couldn’t face the finality of death was no more plausible than the idea that the finality of death had been invented to reassure people who couldn’t face the nightmare of endless experience.