Memory is quite central for me. Part of it is that I like the actual texture of writing through memory.

I wouldn't want to try to adapt something of my own. It would be like going back to school and doing all my exams again.

I discovered that my imagination came alive when I moved away from the immediate world around me.

So why not become a mongrel? It's healthy

Your life must now run the course that's been set for it.

Love isn't about when you first meet. It's about the many, many years you spend together, when you're trying to keep that flame burning.

Now when I look back to the Guildford of that time it seems far more exotic to me than Nagasaki.