My whole life is my work.

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.

We were exiles from reality that summer. We were refugees from ourselves.

WWII was, without exaggeration, the biggest event in all of human history, and it is still within living memory.

The Daily Mail can't say 'asylum-seeker' without saying 'foreign criminal' in the same sentence. I'm sure it's practically editorial policy.

The ways in which we are able to express courage also depend on the hand life deals us.

I am a woman built upon the wreckage of myself.