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.

You don't ask people about the immigration policies of the U.K. or their country's agricultural policy. Instead, you talk to them about the meal they're eating or their family, and from that you get the sense of another human being, someone we can all relate to.

I am restless. I don't mind leaving this comfortable, static life. I could live a year on my own in a remote village.

Once the travel bug bites there is no known antidote, and I know that I shall be happily infected until the end of my life

My parents have been married forty-two years. I wonder how many of those were happy.

I mistrust total competence. I've always felt life is a series of small disasters we try to get through.

In the absence of fear there is little faith.