If we had not met, that day, I think I would have imagined you somehow.

I'm now an agnostic but I grew up on the King James version, which I'm eternally grateful for.

I didn't think I had anything particular to say, but I thought I might have something to say to children.

I'm not a historian but I can get interested - obsessively interested - with any aspect of the past, whether it's palaeontology or archaeology or the very recent past.

Getting to know someone else involves curiosity about where they have come from, who they are.

Giving presents is one of the most possessive things we do, did you realize that? It's the way we keep a hold on other people. Plant ourselves in their lives.

Equally, we require a collective past - hence the endless reinterpretations of history, frequently to suit the perceptions of the present.