Who can't like pigs? They're wonderful creatures! I've always liked pigs.

I've also long since realized that the way to really engage children is to give out prizes; it's amazing how it concentrates their minds.

As a writer, I have readers who will have a range of political views. I don't think they look to me for political guidance.

It's a different sort of love taht puts up with illness. Old love.

It is not enough just to identify a problem; there are plenty of people who were very skilled at pointing out what was wrong with the world, but they were not always so adept at working out how these things could be righted.

You can go through life and make new friends every year - every month practically - but there was never any substitute for those friendships of childhood that survive into adult years. Those are the ones in which we are bound to one another with hoops of steel.

Painters aren't expected to paint bleak pictures, are they?