I would love to go and see the Himalayan Mountain Kingdoms. There are very few left now. I would loved to have gone to Tibet and Nepal. And there are still parts of central Asia that are utterly unexplored.

I would love to go and see the Himalayan Mountain Kingdoms. There are very few left now. I would loved to have gone to Tibet and Nepal. And there are still parts of central Asia that are utterly unexplored.

Life is not all high emotion. Some of the most interesting things are when its not highly emotional: little details of relationships and body language.

London has fine museums, the British Library is one of the greatest library institutions in the world... It's got everything you want, really.

Children start off reading in books about lions and giraffes and so on, but they also-if theyre lucky enough and have reasonable privileges of any human being-are able to go into a garden and turn over stone and see a worm and see a slug and see an ant.

Now, I find that very difficult to reconcile with notions about a merciful God.

No, not a feminist. I'm a humanist. I'm neither one side nor the other.