I think vestigially there's a synesthete in me, but not like a real one who immediately knows what colour Wednesday is.

I think the virtue I prize above all others is curiosity.

I don't like gurus. I don't like people who ask you to follow or believe. I like people who ask you to think independently.

I think the virtue I prize above all others is curiosity. If you look really hard at almost anybody, and try to see why they're doing what they're doing, taking a dig at them ceases to be what you want to do even if you hate them.

On buses and trains, I always think about the inexhaustible variety of human genes. We see types, and occasionally twins, but never doubles. All faces are unique, and this is exhilarating, despite the increasingly plastic similarity of TV stars and actors.

I think the names of colors are at the edge, between where language fails and where it's at its most powerful.

Think of this - that the writer wrote alone, and the reader read alone, and they were alone with each other.

I watch a lot of sport on television. I only watch certain sports, and I only watch them live - I don't think I've ever been able to watch a replay of a match or game of which the result was already decided. I feel bound to cheat and look up what can be looked up.

I think there are a lot more important things than art in the world. But not to me.