When anything goes digital, let alone something as immaterial as a book, there is a tendency to see it as just in the air to be taken, and to lose the sense that somebody once made it.

Today's news, which may be yesterday's anyway, will be eclipsed tomorrow.

I respond to the sound of London being spoken - to the sound of London.

London is like no other city I know in its ability to become beautiful. You can suddenly turn a corner and there are odd moments - of light, of weather.

My mother was a great bringer-up of children. My memories are of a sense of security and comfort.

I think what I like to do is to begin with the ordinary and find the extraordinary in it.

People die when curiosity goes.