Better by far to be good and courageous and bold and to make difference. Not change the world exactly, but the bit around you

Letters, like compilation tapes, were really vehicles for unexpressed emotions and she was clearly putting far too much time and energy into them.

Read a book at the right age and it will stay with you for life.

Salmon. Salmon, salmon, salmon, salmon. I eat so much salmon at these weddings, twice a year I get this urge to swim upstream.

You must do what you enjoy.

He wanted to live life in such a way that if a photograph were taken at random, it would be a cool photograph.

I work three days at home, and two days in the British Library or the London Library, just to get out of the house and hide from the children.