When you experience bereavement at a youngish age, you suddenly realise that life is unjust and unfair, that bad things will happen, and you have to take that on board.

To live as an artist requires hard work or some extraordinary good fortune to come your way.

We keep a journal to entrap that collection of selves that forms us, the individual human being.

I don't think they'll ever make a retro Bond.

We all possess, like it or not, the people we know, and are possessed by them in turn.

I let people off the hook too easily.

Dignity was the first quality to be abandoned when the heart took over the running of human affairs.