King Constantine IX of Regia had been killed three times and was bored with it. He wanted a bath.

I can't stand people who say 'I told you so.' That's worse than somebody coming up and eating your dinner before you have a chance to sit down.

If you want truth you should begin by giving it.

Just because you've seen something doesn't mean you'll stop looking. There's always something you didn't see before.

Eventually, I was sent to Wales and Germany, and after the war, to Paris.

Hope is an essential thread in the fabric of all fantasies, an Ariadne's thread to guide us out of the labyrinth ... Human beings have always needed hope, and surely now more than ever.

Using the device of an imaginary world allows me in some strange way to go to the central issues - it's one of many ways to express feelings about real people, about real human relationships.