I don't think my work has to be loved by everyone, and it's loved by enough people that I'm grateful and able to keep going.

More and more I think of privatisation as being not just about the takeover of resources and power by corporate interests, but as the retreat of citizens to private life and private space, screened from solidarity with strangers and increasingly afraid or even unable to imagine acting in public.

Sometimes a few passionate people change the world; sometimes they start a mass movement and millions do.

Walking . . . is how the body measures itself against the earth.

....there are three prerequisites to going out into the world to walk for pleasure. One must have free time, a place to go, and a body unhindered by illness or social restraints.

Language is like a road, it cannot be perceived all at once because it unfolds in time, whether heard or read. This narrative or temporal element has made writing and walking resemble each other.

A book is a heart that only beats in the chest of another.