More than sex. More than money. You know, life is not endless is it? Cash, cars, cocaine, and girls. It's more than that. And there is a spiritual dimension to people...we are driven to want something more.

I have a list of titles that I leave at the [library] desk, because they are bound to be written some day, and it's best to be ahead of the queue.

London is a small place, and it is very incestuous. People know where you live. Everybody is sort of on top of each other.

Love demands expression. It will not stay still, stay silent, be good, be modest, be seen and not heard, no. It will break out in tongues of praise, the high note that smashes the glass and spills the liquid.

Why did I walk so purposefully in a straight line? Where would it take me? He went round and round and we got there all the same.

It is just as likely that as I invent what I want to say, you will invent what you want to hear.

When it is time to get to work, I go away completely and don't do anything except the work. And that can be 16 hours a day.