All mystical experience is coincidence; and vice versa, of course.

I'm the kind of person who embarks on an endless leapfrog down the great moral issues. I put a position, rebut it, refute the rebuttal and rebut the refutation. Endlessly.

It is better to be quotable than to be honest.

I'm a conservative kind of person. I don't think rightwing is quite the same thing. But I acknowledge my conservatism of temperament.

It is not hard to understand modern art. If it hangs on a wall it's a painting, and if you can walk around it it's a sculpture.

It's the wanting to know that makes us matter.

I write scenes - often quite long scenes - mainly because I still get seduced into writing six lines where one and a half will do.