My maternal grandmother was in London during the Blitz. Indeed, the man she was dating before she met my grandfather was killed beside her in a cinema, in 1941, when a bomb came through the roof - a tragedy in which she herself was badly wounded.

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

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.

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.

I think that there's something extremely beautiful about the Olympic ideal and its motto - 'Swifter, higher, stronger' - it's such a beautiful motto, and it celebrates everything which is the antithesis of death and dissolution and entropy.

I’m telling you, trouble is like the ocean. It covers two thirds of the world.