That vision of a common culture is now simply a remote wistfulness.
Some of the words and symbols and images from childhood will continually be part and parcel of my personality.
Politics is still crucially important. Our choices are vital, and we've got to make them and not just say, 'Oh they're all the same.' They are all the same in certain ways, alas - a political animal is such an animal.
Everything we do has consequences.
You just don't know writers. They'll use anything, anybody. They'll eat their young.
I think childhood is to everyone a lost land.