Mythology is much better stuff than history. It has form; logic; a message.

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.

I am convinced the greatest act of love we can ever perform for people is to tell them about God’s love for them in Christ.

If you want to save your time, learn to be focused on your purpose to the utmost.

If we are not totally blind, what we are seeking is already here. This is it.

I feel so strongly that deep and simple is far more essential than shallow and complex.

All roads lead to Rome, but our antagonists think we should choose different paths.

Every actor wants to have a character that changes, that has some kind of movement, that gets from point A to point B, that doesn't just supply one note.

The question of the composition of perceptible objects is one which already occupied the mind of the ancient Greeks.

Can't tell if I've got rivers or veins running under my skin, flowing out over the plains.

I love being objected to. It worries me, but I love being objected to.

The same government that brought you urban renewal is likely to make an even worse mess of suburban renewal.