You're dead, Cordelia.' No I'm not. 'Yes you are. You're dead. Lie down.

The truth, it seems, is not just what you find when you open a door: it is itself a door, which the poet is always on the verge of going through.

The true story is vicious and multiple and untrue after all. Why do you need it? Don’t ever ask for the true story.

We shouldn't have been so scornful; we should have had compassion. But compassion takes work, and we were young.

Even in the tragedies, [William] Shakespeare always put in parts for the comic actors because his audience was mixed. He puts in people who talk like aristocrats. He puts in idiots and fools.

If one of the arguments against eating meat is to do with cruelty and animal intelligence, then lab meat avoids that. There's also the environmental argument for it.

It's a lifelong failing: she has never been prepared. But how can you have a sense of wonder if you're prepared for everything? Prepared for the sunset. Prepared for the moonrise. Prepared for the ice storm. What a flat existence that would be.