As Siri says, who is deeply involved with neuroscience, emotion consolidates memory, and I think that's true.

My children haven't read 'Winter Journal'. They have read some of my work, but I really don't foist it on them. I want them to be free to discover it in their own good time. I think reading an intimate memoir by your father - or an intimate autobiographical work, whatever we want to call this thing - you have to come at it at the right moment, so I'm certainly not foisting it upon them.

Changing your mind is probably one of the most beautiful things people can do. And I've changed my mind about a lot of things over the years.

As Siri says, who is deeply involved with neuroscience, emotion consolidates memory, and I think that's true.

I've written books that have taken me fifteen years, from first sentence to last, and some that only take three or four months.

The real is always way ahead of what we can imagine.

The things we remember are often things that have great emotional importance, and so they have a lasting effect.