The nowness of everything is absolutely wondrous. [...] If you see the present tense, boy do you see it! And boy can you celebrate it.

Just letting it out is one of the definitions of bad art.

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.

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.

As adults, we do know more, but we don't know enough. People can be very unthinkingly callous.

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