Quotes about "Mindfulness & Presence"

I once did a radio program with a famous materialist, that is to say a scientist who believed that absolutely everything was physical and that all emotions were reductive to little electrical impulses in your neurons. And I found that I didn't believe that. But what the emotions really are, I don't have an alternative theory. ”

I think I give the impression of being a romantic, and I think inside I'm quite severe. But some might say they had the opposite impression of me. ”

The text loses its virginity simply by being staged: it's no longer the abstract ideal version; it's an event. ”

When I was younger, I could do something useful just by being free for half a day, but now I need five days to get the world I've left out of my head and ten days or a fortnight not talking to anyone to hold what I need to hold inside my head. ”

When I was in my teens, I was very, very keen on being the author of a book. What the book was was secondary. I wanted it to be in hardback. I didn't care how thick or thin it was, and I didn't actually care what it was about. ”

I'm not interested in clothes; I just like them. ”

To be 64 is appalling, so what does it matter being 65? ”

I wish I could remember how to write a play. I can't remember how they happened. ”

People think I'm very nice, you know. And I'm not as nice as they think. ”

Even when the writing seems very frivolous, I'm puritanical. I don't mean my subject matter. It's that I'm almost pathologically incapable of leaving something when I'm not quite happy with it. ”