change Quotes

If death meant just leaving the stage long enough to change costume and come back as a new character, would you slow down? Or speed up?

I haven't had television since 1991, and it definitely influences me. As a child of the 1970s, I couldn't hold a narrative in my head; I was lucky if I could hold a joke in my head, because every time you turn on television or radio, it wipes the slate clean - at least in my case.

Fiction is no longer the dominant storytelling device of our time. In the 19th century it worked great, and fiction was the king, but it's not the king any more.

If I could wake up in a different place, at a different time, could I wake up as a different person?

We kind of deny the stages of life.

The future is made of the same stuff as the present.

I shook up the world, I shook up the world.

A man who views the world the same at fifty as he did at twenty has wasted thirty years of his life.

Wars of nations are fought to change maps. But wars of poverty are fought to map change.

Switzerland is a country where very few things begin, but many things end.