Insight cannot be taken back. You cannot return to the moment you were in before.

People will identify with a persecuted minority without asking themselves what they are identifying with.

Florence and Milan had given him ideas more flexible than those of people who'd stayed at home.

To a Brit of my generation, one of the most objectionable things about [Margaret] Thatcher is her falsity. She is a total construct. For one thing, she had a made-over accent.

If you have a good story idea, don't assume it must form a prose narrative. It may work better as a play, a screenplay or a poem. Be flexible.

Sometimes peace looks like war, you cannot tell them apart.

I think it is going to take another fifty years for the report to be in. If I were to give a preliminary report, I would say that [Margaret Thatcher] wrecked this country.