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I find 'True Grit' to be one of the very best American novels: It is a rousing adventure story and deeply perceptive about the makeup of the American character. ”
True Grit' is one of the few books my sons let me read to them - and paid attention to - when they were younger. ”
I'm a very sentimental, emotional person. ”
Europe has a lot of strength. We need to pool that strength, and I am very much in favour of that - more of a deeper political union. ”
I actually think that self-interest is overrated as an all-purpose guide to political motive. It leaves out something at least as powerful and immovable - individual psychology. ”
We need strength and success elsewhere in our country - not by pulling London down but by building the rest of the country up. ”
In football, as in politics, resilience pays off. ”
For a creative writer possession of the 'truth' is less important than emotional sincerity. ”
Emotionally damaged men all too often rip apart their own lives, and those of their partners and children. I see both physical fitness and emotional strength as virtues, but they are acquired by entirely different means. ”
I have tried to keep my eco-anxiety at bay, to box it into my working life. But every month this becomes more difficult. The rising sense of panic I feel is entirely rational; we should all be feeling it. But we can't live with it through every hour of every day. ”