I think jogging is bad for your health. All that pressure on the knees and back cannot be good for you.

There are things I am more interested in than the clone thing. How are they trying to find their place in the world and make sense of their lives? To what extent can they transcend their fate? As time starts to run out, what are the things that really matter?

There comes a point when you can more or less count the number of books you're going to write before you die.

And what made these heart-to-hearts possible--you might even say what made the whole friendship possible during that time--was this understanding we had that anything we told each other during these moments would be treated with careful respect: that we'd honor confidences, and that no matter how much we rowed, we wouldn't use against each other anything we'd talked about during those sessions.

I grew up in Britain before it became a multicultural place, so in many ways I have a nostalgia for an England that's vanished - the England of my childhood has actually disappeared.

And if these incidents now seem full of significance and all of a piece, it's probably because I'm looking at them in the light of what came later.

Don’t you wonder sometimes, what might have happened if you tried?