Armageddon is not around the corner. This is only what the people of violence want us to believe. The complexity and diversity of the world is the hope for the future.

One of the most important days of my life was when I learned to ride a bicycle.

The human race should just slow down and think about what it is doing.

I saw novelists as being admirable people and I thought... I thought... maybe, one day, I could be one of them.

You can't get a suit of armour and a rubber chicken just like that. You have to plan ahead.

I remember queuing around the block in Sheffield when I was growing up. At that time, going to the cinema was really something special - there was something about the style of the real thing that is immeasurable nicer than multiplexes.

My marriage has worked because I am not around much.