I'm always astounded at the way we automatically look at what divides and separates us. We never look at what people have in common.

September 11 was terrible, but if one goes back over the history of the IRA, what happened to the Americans wasn't that terrible.

There is nothing more boring for an intelligent woman than to spend endless amounts of time with small children.

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.

I never thought of London in terms of possible heroes - of course, there are thousands. It's a very talented city.

How boring these emotions are that we're caught in and can't get free of, no matter how much we want to.

For the last third of life there remains only work. It alone is always stimulating, rejuvenating, exciting and satisfying.