"More fundamentally, I'm interested in memory because it's a filter through which we see our lives, and because it's f…"

"I have a sense of having just left without saying goodbye, and of this whole other world just kind of fading away. … …"

"If you go to Tokyo, I think it becomes very obvious that there's this almost seamless mixture of popular culture and …"

"I don't really like to work with literary allusions very much. I never want to be in a position where I'm saying, "Yo…"

"After all, there's no turning back the clock now. One can't be forever dwelling on what might have been. One should r…"

"It is now some twenty minutes since the man left, but I have remained here on this bench to await the event that has …"

"Perhaps it is indeed time I began to look at this whole matter of bantering more enthusiastically. After all, when on…"

"And I'm a Hailsham student – which is enough by itself sometimes to get people's backs up."

"Ruth, incidentally, was only the third or fourth donor I got to choose."

"My donors have always tended to do much better than expected."