The trouble with having an open mind, of course, is that people will insist on coming along and trying to put things in it.

Occasionally he would very nearly swear.

We have been so successful in the past century at the art of living longer and staying alive that we have forgotten how to die. Too often we learn the hard way. As soon as the baby boomers pass pensionable age, their lesson will be harsher still.

Books must be treated with respect, we feel that in our bones, because words have power. Bring enough words together they can bend space and time.

An author writes a book, and that's the book at that point. And if the author writes the book again, then somehow something has gone wrong, if you see what I mean.

I was once a journalist. And I think of myself as a journalist, and that's it. You tell the truth. I even wrote a book called 'The Truth'.

There's one thing you can say for air pollution, you get utterly amazing sunrises.