Only a country that feels invulnerable can afford political turmoil as entertainment.

I never, ever took you for granted. We met too late for that; I was nearly thirty-three by then, and my past without you was too stark and insistent for me to find the miracle of companionship ordinary.

We need to recognise that slowing population growth is one of the most cost-effective and reliable ways of easing pressure on our environment and securing a sustainable future for us all

Change is like that: you are no longer where you were; you are not yet where you will get; you are nowhere exactly.

It's an apathy so absolute that it's like a hole you might fall in.

You can call it innocence, or you can call it gullibility, but Celia made the most common mistake of the good-hearted: she assumed that everyone else was just like her.

it is always difficult to impress the ignorant.