I always hated Tony Blair, from the beginning.

When the print revolution occurred 400 years ago, human beings lost a certain mental capacity, including a sense of memory. In Africa today, you meet people who still carry everything in their heads, the way we used to. We rely on telephone books, address books. We have to look up everything.

Every child has the capacity to be everything.

You have to be grown up, really grown up, not merely in years, to understand your parents.

Women often get dropped from memory, and then history.

Her own contempt for any forms of pressure society might put on her was so profound and instinctive that she as instinctively despised anyone who paid tribute to them.

Laughter is by definition healthy.