Not everything has to mean something. Some things just are.
We breathe, we think, we conceive of our lives as narratives.
In the end, I want to spend my 60s writing bonkbusters like Jilly Cooper.
Someone has to stand up and speak for the freedoms of the little guy.
I was for many years myself a journalist and it is not appropriate to say a programme should not be broadcast.
I've never gone around bashing homosexuals, and I am not homophobic.
Everyone's a pacifist between wars. It's like being a vegetarian between meals.
Warmaking doesn't stop warmaking. If it did, our problems would have stopped millennia ago.
people grow apart, and sometimes there's nothing anyone can do about it
The novelist's intuition for the sacred differs from the translator's interrogation of the sacred.
Auden is a poet - no, the poet - of unembarrassed intellect. Ideas are his emotions, emotions are his ideas.
I'm not a big eater. I'm a terrible cook, and so I don't cook for myself.
I don't like Botox. It makes a very strange forehead.
Fashion shows used to be more crazy. Now they've become a bit too serious.
I'm not a nostalgic person: I never look back; I always forget.
People always say, 'You look like Iggy Pop.'
I do think fashion is fun! Much more than people think.
If you listen too much, you won't be able to create.
Mama!' Rosie tugged on my shirt. 'This broccoli is tasty and wonderful'.
In all our searching, the only thing we've found that makes the emptiness bearable is each other.
The cosmos is within us. We are made of star-stuff. We are a way for the universe to know itself.
