There's a whole generation growing up thinking you shouldn't seek knowledge for its own sake, and that theatre and art and books are activities that you do after-hours, rather than things that are at the heart of life. That's a huge change.

The world is surely wide enough to walk without fear.

Memoir ... satisfies our need for gossip and intimacy, for testimony and confessional, and in this world of spin, offers a truthful account of what it means to succeed or fail, to love and lose, to break your heart and mend it again.

Every moment you steal from the present is a moment you've lost forever. There is only now.

The journey is not linear, it is always back and forth, denying the calendar, the wrinkles and lines of the body.

I don't read reviews because by then it's too late - whatever anyone says, the book won't change. It is written.

Everything is imprinted for ever with what it once was.