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

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

People endure what they endure and they deal with it. It may corrupt them. It may lead them into all sorts of compensatory excesses.

There's no end to the inventiveness of critics, I tell you. Because they can't write fiction, they put their impulse into their analysis of work.

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

I believe everybody is responsible for what they do themselves.

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