Poems are a hotline to our hearts, and we forget this emotional power at our peril
I'm ensuring my place in heaven.
Like a lot of people, for a long time I thought that the road to hell is paved with bad sequels.
I read ' Treasure Island' for the first time at university. And I started to notice then how unresolved some things were. Later, I realised that Stevenson was interested in sequels, and I wondered whether he would have gone back to it had he lived longer.
Honor the miraculousness of the ordinary.
I am a vigilant monarchist. I want to see things evolve. The direction the monarchy seems to be moving in - towards a more mainland-European model - is one I would feel sympathetic about.