The evening's the best part of the day. You've done your day's work. Now you can put your feet up and enjoy it.

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

There is certainly a satisfaction and dignity to be gained in coming to terms with the mistakes one has made in the course of one’s life

After all, when we were children, when things went wrong, there wasn’t much we could do to help put it right. But now we’re adults, now we can. That’s the thing, you see? Look at us, Akira. After all this time, we can finally put things right. Remember, old chap, how we used to play those games? Over and over? How we used to pretend we were detectives searching for my father? Now we’re grown, we can at last put things right.

I cannot start a story or chapter without knowing how it ends. ... Of course, it rarely ends that way.

All children have to be deceived if they are to grow up without trauma.

I felt slightly superior to student politics, for instance. I had no reason to think this, but I thought of myself as slightly more seasoned. I became quite cynical talking to my student friends.