I think childhood is to everyone a lost land.

God, I'm such a lazy writer - I can't even think up new names.

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

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 believe everybody is responsible for what they do themselves.

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

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