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

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

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

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

That vision of a common culture is now simply a remote wistfulness.

The trouble with words is that you never know whose mouths they've been in.

Metaphor is embodied in language.