Capacity for love in its higher forms seems to be peculiarly human although even in humans it is still peculiar.

It is a true saying, that what you fear you find.

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.

We shall all die, and our lives will be irrelevant then. If we make anything that lasts, it outlives us, and it outlives its personal moment. All of my work is deep-dug from me, and every book has to stand or fall without me.

It is the nature of walls that they should fall.

When she bleeds the smells I know change colour. There is iron in her soul on those days. She smells like a gun.

Whoever it is you fall in love with for the first time, not just love but be in love with, is the one who will always make you angry, the one you can't be logical about.