Creative work is incredibly difficult, and that is where the tests lie. Ordinary professionalism and twenty years' experience can accomplish a lot, but it can't access the hidden places. That still needs what it always needs - a condition of complete simplicity, costing not less than everything.

I like to think the price I paid by being open about my private life helped.

It's not the one thing nor the other that leads to madness, but the space in between.

You have to engage with people who are different from you and try to work with their thinking and their mind. That's a real challenge.

There are only three possible endings -aren't there? - to any story: revenge, tragedy or forgiveness. That's it. All stories end like that.

I love the apparent quiet of reading a book. You sit there; you're not really moving. It looks very solitary. It looks very boring, but actually it's the most exciting place because it's going on for you, and you're in that relationship. In that sense, it's like being with a lover. Nobody else can intrude on that space. It's the two of you. It's your own world.

Any measurement must take into account the position of the observer. There is no such thing as measurement absolute, there is only measurement relative.