We do not read to pass the time, but to inhabit time.

Like children all over the world, by the age of 10 I'd come to believe that most of the really humane creatures were not really human at all.

Interviewing is not a democratic art.

As an old creative industry full of cruelty and moral sense, British journalism once flourished on the imperative that people required the truth in order to survive. But people don't require that now. They want sensation and they want it for nothing.

We do not read to pass the time, but to inhabit time.

Given that most movies are bad, and that there are whole categories and sub-categories of badness - the sequel, the Madonna Movie, the Friday 13th Series, or Movies Starring John Travolta Before Pulp Fiction - it is almost impossible to choose a single film for worst movie of all time. But strangely, I do have a nomination and I believe it is actually the worst movie ever made. It is Boxing Helena. The director is David Lynch's daughter, and the film comes with the almost insane-making faults that the family connection might imply.

The first rule of travel is that you should always go with someone you love, which is why I travel alone.