I didn't think I had anything particular to say, but I thought I might have something to say to children.

We make choices but are constantly foiled by happenstance.

There's a preoccupation with memory and the operation of memory and a rather rapacious interest in history.

Mythology is much better stuff than history. It has form; logic; a message.

There's a fearful term that's in fashion at the moment - closure. People apparently believe it is desirable and attainable.

I've always been fascinated by the operation of memory - the way in which it is not linear but fragmented, and its ambivalence.

I'm now an agnostic but I grew up on the King James version, which I'm eternally grateful for.