The West has always been the epicentre of possibility. One of the ways we forge against mortality is to head west. It's to do with catching the sun before it slips behind the horizon.

I'm a little bit perverse, and I just hate doing the thing that's the most obvious.

I've been very lucky.

I have always been intrigued by these lives I have never experienced.

How can you be a recluse in a house full of children, even if you had the inclination to be, which I don't?

My main memories of my father are of his illness.

At a certain age it just became apparent to me that this was probably the work that I would have to do.