The causes we know everything about depend on causes we know very little about, which depend on causes we know absolutely nothing about.

Obviously, you would give your life for your children, or give them the last biscuit on the plate. But to me, the trick in life is to take that sense of generosity between kin, make it apply to the extended family and to your neighbour, your village and beyond.

Your opinions are your symptoms.

I will take his secret to the grave, telling people I meet on the way.

I was so thrilled being a reporter, because it gave you the kind of access to people that you wouldn't ever get to meet.

I'm hopeless at looking into myself and trying to see how things are working and why.

I'm attracted to the past.