Artists are the traditional interpreters of dreams and nightmares.

You can't be a Red if you're married to a civil servant.

There is a great line of women stretching out behind you into the past, and you have to seek them out and find them in yourself and be conscious of them.

I don't think San Francisco needs defending. I never meet anyone who doesn't love the place, Americans or others.

On the news two dozen events of fantastically different importance are announced in exactly the same tone of voice. The voice doesn't discriminate between a divorce, a horse race, a war in the Middle East.

I would not be at all surprised to find out . . . that the dimensions of buildings affect us in ways we don't guess.

All politicians are not the same. I've never felt that way. What is the same is that voters get very excited about new faces, like Clinton and Blair - and they have unrealistic expectations that the world will change overnight. A cynical old hand like myself knows that it won't.