A good nationalism has to depend on a principle of the common people, on myths of a struggling commonality.

As a writer I care about America, and care about its carelessness.

Always trust strangers, it's the people you know that let you down.

Once upon a time, I thought that politics was the name we gave to our higher instincts. That was before Margaret Thatcher, who came to power when I was 11 years old.

'Reality' is a notion that journalists take for granted.

Art you can flush down the loo means nothing to me, even were the loo to be selected by Marcel Duchamp

We do not read to pass the time, but to inhabit time.

Fans of football and fans of nationhood have a similar zeal. Read the fanzines: their contributors could find a needle-sized diss in a haystack of compliments, and their passions are fundamentalist.

Like children all over the world, by the age of 10 I'd come to believe that most of the really humane creatures were not really human at all.

The first rule of travel is that you should always go with someone you love, which is why I travel alone.

It's not a crime not to know yourself. It's not a crime to send life away. It's just a shame.

Never judge anyone but to love and understand everyone.

Just close your eyes and enjoy the roller coaster that is life.

See how many doors open, Alastor said, when someone with influence and ideas comes along with a key? Fortune can be hoarded, or it can be shared.

To wake up in the morning and just know what I'm going to wear, it helps me get out of the house faster.

If we’re going to have arguments, let’s have arguments — but let’s make them debates worthy of this body and worthy of this country.

You may make some mistakes - but that doesn't make you a sinner. You've got the very nature of God on the inside of you.

I'm a video game fan. I played them before I became an actress.

I had started off, before I ever got an acting job, working at Robert De Niro's Tribeca Productions as a reader. I was always interested in that side of the camera.

It's real difficult to save when you don't have any money.

You cannot just keep borrowing more and more and keep spending more and more without eventually having a day of reckoning.