It's either vilification or sanctification, and both piss me off.

It strikes me as being morally repulsive and intellectually absurd that people die of want in a world of surplus.

You'll think I'm off my trolley when I say this, but the Bush administration is the most radical - in a positive sense - in its approach to Africa since Kennedy.

And part of that is, what is the point of having children if you don't have the privilege of bringing them up?

And whereas women had to fight to find their way into the workforce, men are now fighting to reclaim their place in the family structure.

I do think I feel it but you don't think you are cause at a certain time you are no age but you don't think you are anything. You feel the life you have lived. I feel that. It's been a long fifty years.

Because we can't comprehend it, and that's what allows us to do it again. And it is the normal, it's the average person that can do this. Again, in an imaginary other universe, maybe we'd have done it. That's the terrible truth that lies at the heart of each of us; that imponderable, 'were I not Jewish, in Hungary, Czechoslovakia, Germany, would I have gone down on the other side?'