I wish being a beekeeper, which I am, gave you a free pass on the carbon footprint, but it doesn't.

I think radio plays are my favourite medium, as they make the listener work and create and contribute in a way that TV and film can never do, and they have an immediacy that written prose often lacks.

Leave no stone unturned. Deeply explore the beauty of your life.

The wise man knows when to keep silent. Only the fool tells all he knows.

When I was young, you know, the first foreign editions that would come in of anything of mine, I'd sit there and look at them as these strange and wonderful artifacts.

I mean, maybe I am crazy. I mean, maybe. But if this is all there is, then I don't want to be sane.

A story only matters, I suspect, to the extent that the people in the story change.