The loss of Eden is personally experienced by every one of us as we leave the wonder and magic and also the pains and terrors of childhood.

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.

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

It is a dangerous thing to have instant access to your emotions.

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

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

I have been aware, from the age of 6, that I had talent.