I am shy to admit that I have followed the advice given all those years ago by a wise archbishop to a bewildered young man: that moments of unbelief 'don't matter,' that if you return to a practice of the faith, faith will return.

Anti-Semitism is extremely common.

I might be deceiving myself but I do not think that I do have an inordinate fear of death.

I'm like Jane Austen - I work on the corner of the dining table.

Brain power improves by brain use, just as our bodily strength grows with exercise. And there is no doubt that a large proportion of the female population, from school days to late middle age, now have very complicated lives indeed.

I'm not saying all publishers have to be literary, but some interest in books would help.

The fact that logic cannot satisfy us awakens an almost insatiable hunger for the irrational.