I like animals because they are not consciously cruel and don't betray each other.

I'm not that interested in people

My childhood was appalling.

It is a stern fact of history that no nation that rushed to the abyss ever turned back. Not ever, in the long history of the world. We are now on the edge of the abyss. Can we, for the first time in history, turn back? It is up to you.

One of my grandsons used to insist, when he was only 3 or 4, that he had been born and had lived in India

Reading, not just an escape, but an exercise in living.

Don't let the past steal your present. This is the message of Christmas: We are never alone.