Those who try to obliterate the past are injuring the present.

As individuals, we are shaped by story from the time of birth; we are formed by what we are told by our parents, our teachers, our intimates.

The human longing for story is so powerful, so primitive, that it seems like something not learned, but locked into our genes.

It is a violation which has obsessed the tyrants of the twentieth century. They do not want simply to kill their opponents, but to liquidate them, to deny that they have ever existed.

I would like people to come into my Dreamworld and then choose to stay.

When you are young you don't always realise how full of doubts everybody is.

I can remember being in my pram: children stayed in their prams much longer then than they do now. A big bouncy pram with black covers and a hood with metal clips that could trap your fingers. I was looking up at my sister who was sitting on the pram seat, with her back to me.