That is the trouble with happiness-all of it is built on top of something that men want.

There's what people say, and there's what people mean, and I like to explore the difference between the two.

I do think it is harder to acknowledge our strengths, or to forgive ourselves and each other for our shortcomings, when there has not been a result we can all agree on. And it is certainly impossible to imagine forgiving the enemy while their animus remains undefeated. Yet war doesn't end with armistice, it only ends with forgiveness and reconciliation.

My paternal grandmother drove ambulances during the regional Blitz, in Birmingham.

If I can't write it would be as if I died.

Studying psychology is fun because you're always looking for the same things I think a writer should be looking for, which is the story behind the story.

Nobody has the time to sit down and explain the first world from first principles.