When a guy is perceived as macho, female editors aren't going to like it - because they all want to be men.

I wouldn't look pretty as a woman.

There's a need to dig up the past and analyze it.

There's nothing good that comes out of war. It's simply hell on earth, and people survive, and people don't.

I have always been terrified of the death of my parents. I never knew if I could count on myself. I never knew if that would send me over the edge.

My brother and I both used to worry about dying at 40 because our father died at 40. That probably wasn't terribly rational, since my father led a rather unhealthy lifestyle, shall we say.

You could hear him, literally, half a mile away when he opened up. He was at his peak then. He was, naturally, dying to get out of the place he was in, and he recorded for us his appeal for pardon to the governor.

There's nothing good about ash dieback, but there is one useful thing that could be done: wherever possible, leave the dead trees to stand. There is more life in a dead tree than in a living tree: around 2,000 animal species in the UK rely on dead or dying wood for their survival.