The insanity of consumption bothers me. Talk about the opiate of the masses. It ain't religion anymore. It's stuff.

The flashbacks are parallel for me. You experience two storylines at the same time, and I'm not switching from one time to another.

Children are much more understanding of the suddenness and arbitrariness of death than we are. The old fairy tales contain a lot of that, and we've stolen from them, just as they stole from Greek myth, which has that same mixture of pre-Christian chaos.

The Catholic Church - it's so difficult because I don't want say anything offensive but it makes me very angry that religious leaders from this faith have tried to respond negatively to sexual education and to the promotion of condom use

I think books are like people, in the sense that they'll turn up in your life when you most need them.

Being disabled should not mean being disqualified from having access to every aspect of life.

If you've got to my age, you've probably had your heart broken many times. So it's not that difficult to unpack a bit of grief from some little corner of your heart and cry over it.