People die, but money never does.

I've always been fascinated by the operation of memory - the way in which it is not linear but fragmented, and its ambivalence.

We make choices but are constantly foiled by happenstance.

I'm not a historian but I can get interested - obsessively interested - with any aspect of the past, whether it's palaeontology or archaeology or the very recent past.

It seems to me that anyone whose library consists of a Kindle lying on a table is some sort of bloodless nerd.

The present hardly exists, after all-it becomes the past even as it happens. A tricky medium, time - and central to the concerns of fiction.

We all act as hinges-fortuitous links between other people.

The consideration of change over the century is about loss, though I think that social change is gain rather than loss.

We all need a past - that's where our sense of identity comes from.

Getting to know someone else involves curiosity about where they have come from, who they are.

The Photograph is concerned with the power that the past has to interfere with the present: the time bomb in the cupboard.

But you're the only one, Scarlet. You'll always be the only one.

This Land Is Protected By Million’s Blood Bath, If Needed, We’ll Fight Again By Sipping The Death Bowl....

In the art of design, color is to form what verse is to prose,--a more harmonious and luminous vehicle of the thought.

Unless he obeys, a man cannot believe.

Wise is he who enjoys the show offered by the world.

There's just something that is kind of magical that happens when we sing live.

He's a scoundrel, young Brad Pitt, who led me, his elderly colleague, astray more than once.

You know who really gives kids a bad name? Posh and Becks.

Nothing would give up life: Even the dirt keeps breathing a small breath.

He is a thermostat leader, not a thermometer...He does not react to the environment he's in. He changes every environment he's in.