We have an obligation to imagine. It is easy to pretend that nobody can change anything, that we are in a world in which society is huge and the individual is less than nothing: an atom in a wall, a grain of rice in a rice field. But the truth is, individuals change their world over and over, individuals make the future, and they do it by imagining that things can be different.

Empathy is a tool for building people into groups, for allowing us to function as more than self-obsessed individuals.

Nearly' only counts in horseshoes and hand-grenades.

There are little pockets of old time in London, where things and places stay the same, like bubble in amber.

I sat in the dark and thought: There’s no big apocalypse. Just an endless procession of little ones.

I am fascinated a) by transgressive art and b) what happens beyond the boundaries.

If you are protected from dark things then you have no protection of, knowledge of, or understanding of dark things when they show up.