Can he love her? Can the soul really be satisfied with such polite affections? To love is to burn - to be on fire, like Juliet or Guinevere or Eloise.

The trick is to age honestly and gracefully and make it look great, so that everyone looks forward to it.

I firmly believe there are books whose greatness actually enable you to live.

We have to reinvest, I think, in the idea of articulacy as a form of personal human freedom and power.

We belabour, I think, under a very heavy crust of consumerism really

I've a problem with the word charity because I think that NGOs, as I prefer calling them, really do take the work of moral and social responsibilities that ought to be taken on by governments.

It's not my fault that there is this gap between rich and poor, it is the fault of governments. I want a different world. One where I don't wake up thinking I'm so lucky to be able to feed my daughter.