"Originally, everything I wrote I wanted to perform, to flesh it out, and I didn't have the courage just to let people…"

"Unfortunately sometimes I have to fly, but I don't fly nearly as much as I did, because of my carbon footprint, and I…"

"Four a.m., having just returned from an evening at the Golden Spheres, which despite the inconveniences of heat, nois…"

"P.S. Managed to avoid the hoyden Emily Thompkinson, who has purloined my creation and added things of her own. Nefari…"

"I don't really know how to thank the Academy for this. And if I try we'll be here till Christmas. So I better get on..."

"Before I came, I went to visit Jane Austen's grave in Winchester Cathedral to pay my respects, you know, and tell her…"

"Profound thanks to Columbia Pictures and the lovely forms of Lisa Henson, Gary Wiggan, and Mark Canter for hiring a f…"

"The more I thought about it, the more obsessed I became with the idea of a swimming journey. I started to dream ever …"

"From water level, I observed the mating joined in flight like refuelling aircraft, and the random progress of the clo…"

"It is through trees that we see and hear the wind: woodland people can tell the species of a tree from the sound it m…"