I was on my own union council for twenty-odd years.

I am passionately opposed to capital punishment, and I have been all my life.

I don't read a great deal of fiction, to my shame, other than the classics.

I think it is obscene that we should believe that we are entitled to end somebody's life, no matter what that person has supposedly done or not done.

I believe we need heroes...we need certain people who we can measure our own shortcomings by.

I do care about style. I do care, but I only care about style that serves the subject.

I prefer fact to fiction.