Dogs are in on our human silliness; lions are not.

As a writer I've learned certain lessons. One of them is to be careful about how you put a view, and to bear in mind how easily and readily you'll be misinterpreted.

I am capable of being idle.

The point about love, the essential point, was that we loved what we loved. We did not choose. We just loved.

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 seems to me that we're in danger of losing sight of certain basic civic values in society by allowing the growth of a whole generation of people who really have no sense of attachment to society.

We don't forget.... Our heads may be small, but they are as full of memories as the sky may sometimes be full of swarming bees, thousands and thousands of memories, of smells, of places, of little things that happened to us and which came back, unexpectedly, to remind us who we are.