I don't see myself as experimenting in any conscious way, it's perhaps that certain books require different densities of language.

People of this teenager's age are on the brink of adulthood and have to be allowed a greater degree of responsibility. A consequence of this is a decrease in parental responsibility. Therefore to have criminal responsibility for what you don't know about seems rather extreme.

I always thought it better to allow myself to doubt before I decided, than to expose myself to the misery, after I had decided, of doubting whether I had decided rightly and justly.

It's always better if you're next door. Ideas come up at the oddest times. They don't always come up in a conference call.

When you commit a serious doping offence you are not eligible for lottery funding.

These days - with the decline of the traditional churches - I'm concerned about where we obtain some form of moral direction.

It's basically a home-rule issue. I think the governing authority that appoints people as assessors certainly has reasons for doing it. ... And it certainly ought to be the board of assessors' right to say who is best qualified to serve as an appraiser.