There's an unconscious bias in our society: girls are wonderful; boys are terrible. And to be a boy, or young man, growing up, having to listen to all this, it must be painful.

Things are not quite so simple always as black and white.

Our society is dependent on some precarious mechanisms, and they are very dicey. They can easily collapse.

I do not think that marriage is one of my talents. I've been much happier unmarried than married.

Loneliness, she thought, was craving for other people's company. But she did not know that loneliness can be an unnoticed cramping of the spirit for lack of companionship.

I am sure everyone has had the experience of reading a book and finding it vibrating with aliveness, with colour and immediacy. And then, perhaps some weeks later, reading it again and finding it flat and empty. Well, the book hasn't changed: you have.

We do not know which of our silver products will be judged as gold by our successors, nor does it matter.