- [on J.K. Rowling and the 'Harry Potter' series]: "Ms Rowling's magic world has no place for the numinous. It is written for people whose imaginative lives are confined to TV cartoons and the exaggerated (more exciting, not threatening) mirror-worlds of soaps, reality TV and celebrity gossip.
- On personal power: The true exercise of freedom is -- cannily and wisely and with grace -- to move inside what space confines -- and not seek to know what lies beyond and cannot be touched or tasted.
- J K Rowling is a brilliant inventor of details of magic, but her world has its origin in a boarding school, a place to which I do not want to return.
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