I thought I would be an organic chemist. I went off to university, and when I couldn't understand the chemistry lectures I decided that I would be a zoologist, because zoologists seemed like life-loving people.

Then I fell in love and everything went to hell.

I have never begun a novel which wasn't going to stretch me further than I had ever stretched before.

I thought I would be an organic chemist. I went off to university, and when I couldn't understand the chemistry lectures I decided that I would be a zoologist, because zoologists seemed like life-loving people.

I don't think you have the right to shout about other people's private life.

I'm interested in where we are, where we're going, where we've come from.

I'm always the one with the activist friends. I've been an activist very little.