You wake up one day and suddenly realize that your youth is behind you, even though you're still young at heart.

I believe that I am male and I am female.

I learned a woman is never an old woman.

This is a nation that has lost the ability to be self-critical, and that makes a lie out of the freedoms.

I love kids. I think I'm a child at heart.

Because philosophy arises from awe, a philosopher is bound in his way to be a lover of myths and poetic fables. Poets and philosophers are alike in being big with wonder.

I used to write things for friends. There was this girl I had a crush on, and she had a teacher she didn't like at school. I had a real crush on her, so almost every day I would write her a little short story where she would kill him in a different way.

I was 13 years old at music school talking to my teacher. I can't quite remember what it was I was trying to describe, but I do remember my music teacher saying to me, 'Do you have synesthesia?' In hindsight, it seems a little presumptuous of her to think a little boy in Essex would know what synesthesia was.