The knowledge that we have about what it is to be human that we have as a child is something we necessarily must lose.

Therapy, as opposed to analysis, is a whole construct of myth, beautiful and creative.

I was given talent, and if you are given it, it is your obligation to use it.

It is a dangerous thing to have instant access to your emotions.

The strangest thing that human speech and human writing can do is create a metaphor. That is an amazing leap, is it not?

The more my work improves or broadens or widens, the more surely I tame myself.

I did not fully understand the dread term 'terminal illness' until I saw Heathrow for myself.