“ Artists could never, would never, harm anybody. They’re too busy painting. Same with ad drunks. They might be a bit useless at functional tasks, they may break things (small objects, precious objects,… Andrew Miller
“ If the trees and the plants are brothers, if the birds are my sisters, then cats are truly my kin. Andrew Miller
“ The visit, like all visits home for a long time now, has been an obscure failure. When is it we cease to be able to go back, truly go back? What secret door is it that closes? Andrew Miller
“ The writers themselves … they were pitifully out of context. So self-assured, so assuming, so completely wrong. Unable – any of them – to imagine what might be coming. Andrew Miller
“ The poverty of the villages is almost picturesque from the windows of a coach that is not stopping. Andrew Miller
“ I regret, most of all, my shrivelled heart. So focused on the numbers. On the maths of my personal equation. Can a man change his heart? Are there ways to improve the spirit of who you are? Of why you… Andrew Miller
“ And yet, in terms of its emotive potential, I still find art more attractive, currently, than books, which fail at a deeper level. Andrew Miller
“ Art, I subsequently realised, is like that. It softens by association and implication. It renders the hard pliable. It creates gaps, gaping holes really, in possibility. Andrew Miller
