The thing about imagination is that by the very act of putting it down, there must be some truth in one's own imagination.

I think childhood is to everyone a lost land.

Everything we do has consequences.

Words themselves - the very material of our discourse increasingly take on masks or disguises

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.

You just don't know writers. They'll use anything, anybody. They'll eat their young.