I think that the present is worth attention, one shouldn't sacrifice it to future conceptions of, of this future or that future.

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

Any revival in which I am involved is liable to change.

I write out of my intellectual experience.

The whole notion of journalism being an institution whose fundamental purpose is to educate and inform and even, one might say, elevate, has altered under commercial pressure, perhaps, into a different kind of purpose, which is to divert and distract and entertain.

Life in a box is better than no life at all, I expect. You'd have a chance at least. You could lie there thinking: Well, at least I'm not dead.

I really enjoy working on adaptations.