Forgiving men is so much easier than forgiving women.

Each form has its pluses and its minuses.

This above all, to refuse to be a victim.

We have been shark to one another, but also lifeboat.

I saw all of the films [based on The Tempest] available, including the one with Helen Mirren in which Prospero is Prospera - you wonder, "Would it work?" But it does, because anything she does works.

The animals have no need for speech, why talk when you are a word.

I'm a novelist, and idle speculation is what novelists do. How odd to spend one's life trying to pretend that non-existent people are real: though no odder, I suppose, than what government bureaucrats do, which is trying to pretend that real people are non-existent.