This is where it all begins. Everything starts here, today.

I suppose the important thing is to make some sort of difference,’ she siad. ‘You know, actually change something.’ ‘What, like “change the world”, you mean?’ ‘Not the whole entire world. Just the little bit around you.

Don’t keep fighting battles that are already lost.

Of course you should study whatever you want. The written appreciation and understanding of literature, or any kind of artistic endeavour, is absolutely central to a decent society. Why d'you think books are the first things that the fascists burn?

The problem with all these fiercely individualistic girls was that they were all exactly the same.

I work three days at home, and two days in the British Library or the London Library, just to get out of the house and hide from the children.

Mortified at the speed with which intimacy evaporates.