People being encouraged to make up their own minds and think for themselves is so important. This world talks endlessly about freedom of choice, but we've never been [nothing] more than a nation of robots. Everybody is seduced by corporate culture.

Everything is imprinted for ever with what it once was.

It is the nature of walls that they should fall.

Wherever love is, I want to be, I will follow it as surely as the land-locked salmon finds the sea.

I keep myself locked as a box when it matters, and broken open when it doesn't matter at all.

I'm always nervous about going home, just as I am nervous about rereading books that have meant a lot to me.

Part broken - part whole, you begin again. ( from 'Why books seem shockproof against change.' THE TIMES: BOOKS)