Let's stop feeling so guilty about global warming

When husbands and fathers leave, their wives and daughters tend to value themselves less as a result.

It's not funny at all that we do all that advertising for children. Why is advertising for children allowed? What possible reason can there be for having those effing adverts on TV for all this crap that's made by poor people in poor countries that we sell our children who have too much?

Any problem, big or small, within a family, always seems to start with bad communication. Someone isn't listening.

I have a lot of people to thank but they're none of them here so I'm not going to bother.

The trouble is it's very difficult to pin-point the most important thing because Aids affects everyone in different levels of society, differently and you have to respond to it differently.

I think books are like people, in the sense that they'll turn up in your life when you most need them. I firmly believe there are books whose greatness actually enables you to live, to do something. And sometimes, human beings need story and narrative more than they need nourishment and food.