We need to start talking about inequality again; we need to start talking about the inequities and unfairnesses and the injustices of an excessively divided society, divided by wealth, by opportunity, by outcome, by assets and so forth.

After 1945 what happened was rather the opposite: with one major exception boundaries stayed broadly intact and people were moved instead.

I'm not sure I've learned anything new about life; but I've had to think harder about death and what comes after for other people.

I was born accidentally. I lived accidentally in London. We nearly migrated to New Zealand. So much of my life has been a product of chance, I can't see a meaning in it at all.

Today, neither Left nor Right can find their footing.

I don't believe in an afterlife. I don't believe in a single or multiple godhead. I respect people who do, but I don't believe it myself.

I've lost count of the interviews I've done about my illness and its relationship to my ideas and writing.