People are much more interesting than people realise.

The English have always been greedy for news of times past, with that mixture of fatalism and melancholy which is part of the national character.

I don't know if I have a voice of my own. I don't see me being an important person with something to say. I haven't. I've got nothing to say. My opinion is of no consequence or value.

The endless chatter of this journey had wearied me.

I strike up conversations all the time and it is very interesting, finding out about things I know nothing about.

Familial love can find an echo in our own hearts just as it did in that of Charles Dickens.

Freud was just a novelist.