Our family arrived in England in 1960. At that time I thought the war was ancient history. But if I think of 15 years ago from now, thats 1990, and t….

But I really wanted to find it for you. And when it looked in the end like it wasn't going to turn up, I just said to myself, one day I'll go to Norf….

I don't really like to work with literary allusions very much. I never want to be in a position where I'm saying, "You've got to read a lot of other ….

If you go to Tokyo, I think it becomes very obvious that there's this almost seamless mixture of popular culture and Japanese traditional culture..

It was like there was some parallel universe we all vanished off to where we had all this sex..

I think the judging process is full of integrity, compared to some other prizes around the world. The fact that they change the panel of judges every….

As with a wound on one's own body, it is possible to develop an intimacy with the most disturbing of things.

The evening's the best part of the day. You've done your day's work. Now you can put your feet up and enjoy it..

Sometimes I get so immersed in my own company, if I unexpectedly run into someone I know, it's a bit of a shock and takes me a while to adjust..

An artist's concern is to capture beauty wherever he finds it..

Now naturally, like many of us, I have a reluctance to change too much of the old ways..

To see the best before I have properly begun would be somewhat premature..

Now when I look back to the Guildford of that time it seems far more exotic to me than Nagasaki..

It is all very well, in these changing times, to adapt one's work to take in duties not traditionally within one's realm; but bantering is of another….

Your life must now run the course that's been set for it..

It had never occurred to me that our lives, which had been so closely interwoven, could unravel with such speed..

The problem, as I see it, is that you've been told and not told. You've been told, but none of you really understand, and I dare say, some people are….

I saw a new world coming rapidly. More scientific, efficient, yes. More cures for the old sicknesses. Very good. But a harsh, cruel, world. And I saw….

As a writer, I'm more interested in what people tell themselves happened rather than what actually happened..

She always wanted to believe in things..

Poor creatures. What did we do to you? With all our schemes and plans?.