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

If you don't want women to do whatever they need to do then you must provide them with food, you must provide them with shelter and their basic human rights.

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.

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?

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

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.

I ask Laurie it it's possible to get trained fish. Lindsay says this is how we know I've never produced a movie.