“I want my art to make people look at the world in a new way. I mean, w...” — John Banville Quote

I want my art to make people look at the world in a new way. I mean, what's the point of the art of writing if it doesn't take you into the mysterious?

All a work of art can do is present the surface. I can't know the insides of people. I know very little about the inside of myself.

I never went to university. I'm self-educated. I didn't go because I was too impatient, too arrogant.

Death is such a strange thing. One minute you're here and then just gone. You'd think there would be an anteroom, a place where you could be visited before you go.

We think we're living in the present, but we're really living in the past.

The world is much more mysterious than we ever thought.

I think we're all fascinated and a little mystified by how the brain works. One of the most mysterious of the physical sciences is neurological science.

I think a director can make a play happen before your eyes so that you are part of it and it is part of you. If you can get it right, there's no mystery. It's not about mystery. It's not even mysterious. It's about our lives.

I really wanted to be part of 'Trinkets' and play Moe because there's something very mysterious about her.

I think I write about things that are mysterious to me.