Yet, like the sea and the gallows, London refuses nobody.

I don't in any sense think of myself as a celebrity, which of course I'm not.

I saw a ghost once, about 20 years ago. It took the form of someone coming out of a sleeping body and sitting at the foot of the bed.

Under the force of the imagination, nature itself is changed.

I strike up conversations all the time and it is very interesting, finding out about things I know nothing about.

It's only recently that we've discovered that the artist's inner self is somehow more important than the public world. I'm happier to create exterior pieces for the world rather than to express something I deeply feel or wish to say.

Bigotry does not consort easily with free trade.