Could you defeat a cloud, a dream, a poem?

I generally wade in blind and trust to fate and instinct to see me through.

Fear and I were old buddies, despite my best efforts to the contrary.

Intellectual labor is a common technique for the avoidance of thinking.

The world is full of ghosts, and some of them are still people.

What was the worst thing you've ever done? I won't tell you that, but I'll tell you the worst thing that ever happened to me...the most dreadful thing.

My first real breakthrough collided with the last months of Callaghan's Labour government, which had every intention of enjoying my success as much as I did.

Occasionally.. .what you have to do is go back to the beginning and see everything in a new way.

If I planned everything out in advance, I'd expire of boredom.

An average working day begins at 8 or 9 am, includes an hour for lunch, and ends at 5 or 6 pm.

I had a connoisseur's... appreciation of fear.

… there is no permanence or guarantee in this life.

Anyone can love a rose, but only a saint can love its thorns.

Wherever the poetry of myth is interpreted as biography, history or science, it is killed.

The litmus test for whether I want to take on a role or not is usually fear. If Im afraid of it, then I want to do it.

You can't get a cup of tea large enough or a book long enough to suit me.

My family - my husband, my daughters, my grandchildren, my great-grandchildren, all of them - are the most important thing in the world to me.

Usually if a scene's really hard to write, I just don't write it. Nothing's coming to mind.

Time after time ... today's crisis shrinks to next week's footnote to a newly headline disaster.

People are concerned over safety and spillage, especially for the workers. Were all really hopeful even though we remain deeply concerned over the safety and the efficacy of an unproven technology.

Father, O father! what do we here In this land of unbelief and fear?