"When we meet a work of art, there's something about that encounter that isn't fixed in time, but rat..." — Ali Smith

I really like jackets and tend to buy them to the detriment of my need of all the other items.

You never know what you're going to end up with when you sit down to write something. At the end, if it holds, it can do this multifarious thing - which is to open things rather than close them, to make them bigger rather than smaller, to cross those divides which we live every day of our lives.

I have a theory, now - that the whole of the Renaissance was peopled with girls dressed as boys so they could make art.

I see the difficulty of kids in going to university, the difficulty of kids in schools getting arts education, so that the arts and drama and the creative arts are extracurricular. They aren't: they are at the centre, and they are the equipment we so desperately need in the world.