The world is crawling with authors touring now. They're like performance artists.

And if these incidents now seem full of significance and all of a piece, it's probably because I'm looking at them in the light of what came later.

An artist's concern is to capture beauty wherever he finds it.

When I see films made from books, I make a huge effort not to remember the book. It's important to see the film as a film.

She might be a great person, but life's so much bigger than just loving someone.

If you go to Tokyo, I think it becomes very obvious that there's this almost seamless mixture of popular culture and Japanese traditional culture.

When we lost something precious, and we'd looked and looked and still couldn't find it, then we didn't have to be completely heartbroken. We still had that last bit of comfort, thinking one day, when we grow up, and we were free to travel around the counry, we would always go and find it in Norfolk...And that's why years and years later, that day Tommy and I found another copy of that lost tape of mine in a town on the Norfolk coast, we didn't just think it pretty funny; we both felt deep down some tug, some old wish to believe again in something that was once close to our hearts.