Don Quixote's 'Delusions' is an excellent read - far better than my own forthcoming travel book, 'Walking Backwards Across Tuscany.'

The real change that paintings undergo is in the perceptions of the viewer.

Acting in a stage play is like working the evening shift in an office.

I read 'Crime and Punishment' years ago and don't recall the details of it, but I do retain a strong sense of the creeping paranoia and panic.

Reading the play at home, however fulfilling, can never be the vivacious experience that Shakespeare intended.

Global warming, the ongoing destruction of the planet, Third World debt, the uselessness of the railways, the takeover by the corporations, the scary George Bush person: all these things are important and should be animating me into outrage. Yet somehow they do not.

It is more interesting to be compared to someone famous, because it lets you gauge what perceptions people have about your appearance.