On the one occasion where I did try writing a screenplay, I found the rewriting just unendurable.

Life is a lot more interesting if you are interested in the people and the places around you. So, illuminate your little patch of ground, the people that you know, the things that you want to commemorate. Light them up with your art, with your music, with your writing, with whatever it is that you do.

I think that storytelling and creation are very close to what the center of what magic is about. I think not just for me, but for most of the cultures that have had a concept of magic, then the manipulation of language, and words, and thus of stories and fictions, has been very close to the center of it all.

London has been used as the emblematic English city, but it's far from representative of what life in England is actually about.

Existence is random. Has no pattern save what we imagine after staring at it for too long. No meaning save what we choose to impose.

I don't like to go to conventions, and I don't like to relate to people on a level of hero worship, because there's no real communication going on there.

I don't think you can separate a place from its history. I think a place is much more than the bricks and mortar that go into its construction. I think it's more than the accidental topography of the ground it stands on.