In the animal world individuals cheat, as do we.

We have been shark to one another, but also lifeboat.

Reading ... changes you. You aren't the same person after you've read a particular book as you were before, and you will read the next book, unless both are Harlequin Romances, in a slightly different way.

I was delighted with the film [Payback: Debt and the Shadow Side of Wealth]; it almost made me want to be a film-maker!

Disease has always been a much bigger killer of human beings than wars.

Within one's own family, money is not the measure of things, unless the person is an absolute Scrooge. Only the most extreme kind of monster would put a price on everything.

Myths can't be translated as they did in their ancient soil. We can only find our own meaning in our own time.