We took away your art because we thought it would reveal your souls. Or to put it more finely, we did it to prove you had souls at all..

I want my words to survive translation..

When we lost something precious, and we'd looked and looked and still couldn't find it, then we didn't have to be completely heartbroken. We still ha….

You need to remember that. If you’re to have decent lives, you have to know who you are and what lies ahead of you, every one of you..

Memory is quite central for me. Part of it is that I like the actual texture of writing through memory..

I try to always go for something... very interior, following thoughts and memories, something that I think is difficult to do on the screen, which is….

Even at the time, I realised this couldn't be right, that this interpretation didn't fit with the rest of the lyrics. But that wasn't an issue with m….

The fantasy never got beyond that—I didn’t let it—and though the tears rolled down my face, I wasn’t sobbing or out of control. I just waited a bit, ….

What is the point of worrying oneself too much about what one could or could not have done to control the course one's life took? Surely it is enough….

I can see,’ Miss Emily said, ‘that it might look as though you were simply pawns in a game. It can certainly be looked at like that. But think of it.….

When a man induces his wife to turn suspicious thoughts against her own father, then that is surely cause enough for resentment..

If you look at my last songs and first short stories, there is a real connection between them..

What I'm not sure about, is if our lives have been so different from the lives of the people we save. We all complete. Maybe none of us really unders….

There was a time you saw me once, one afternoon, in the dormitories. There was no one else around, and I was playing this tape, this music. I was sor….

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….

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

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….

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

I grew up in Britain before it became a multicultural place, so in many ways I have a nostalgia for an England that's vanished - the England of my ch….

I don't think it's any fun, even if you are one of the most respected authors in the world like Margaret Atwood, to keep being nominated and not win..