My mother was a great bringer-up of children. My memories are of a sense of security and comfort.
I respond to the sound of London being spoken - to the sound of London.
I do my thinking while I walk. It just loosens up the mind in the way that you don't get when you are sitting at a desk.
People die when curiosity goes.
Today's news, which may be yesterday's anyway, will be eclipsed tomorrow.
What we wish upon the future is very often the image of some lost, imagined past.