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

When we have found all the mysteries and lost all the meaning, we will be alone, on an empty shore.

Skill without imagination is craftsmanship and gives us many useful objects such as wickerwork picnic baskets. Imagination without skill gives us modern art.

There must have been a moment, at the beginning, were we could have said -- no. But somehow we missed it.

We are tied down to a language which makes up in obscurity what it lacks in style.

I was delighted to not go to university. I couldn't wait to be out of education.

The colours red, blue and green are real. The colour yellow is a mystical experience shared by everybody.