Happiness is equilibrium. Shift your weight. Equilibrium is pragmatic. You have to get everything into proportion. You compensate, rebalance yourself so that you maintain your angle to your world. When the world shifts, you shift.

The fact is that people are attracted to new work and by new work.

It's the best possible time to be alive, when almost everything you thought you knew is wrong.

I mean, if Beethoven had been killed in a plane crash at twenty-two, the history of music would have been very different. As would the history of aviation, of course.

I write for film or, in this case, television when I haven't got a play cooking.

And for the last three minutes on the wind of a windless day I have heard the sound of drums and flute.

I read for interest and enjoyment, and when I cease to enjoy it I stop.