I will never understand people who think that the way to show their righteous opposition to sexual freedom is to write letters full of filthy words..

In books I have traveled, not only to other worlds, but into my own..

Children should have enough freedom to be themselves - once they've learned the rules..

Down time is where we become ourselves... a hiatus that passes for boredom but is really the quiet moving of the wheels inside that fuel creativity..

In life, the classroom is everywhere. The exam comes at the very end..

I don't do research for my novels. Obviously, in my other line of work as a reporter and a columnist, I've had the opportunity to get to know both so….

I've been a feminist since I was a teenager, but originally it was because I wanted to make the world a better place for me..

I think the very best thing about the internet is that I can read all the London papers every day if I want to..

It makes me angry to think that . . . female sanitation workers will spend their days doing a job most of their co-workers think they can't handle, a….

In the family sandwich, the older people and the younger ones can recognize one another as the bread. Those in the middle are, for a time, the meat..

Figuring out who you are is the whole point of the human experience..

I think at every moment in the last probably 100 years, when the institutional church had the opportunity to do the right thing, they did the wrong t….

Don't ever forget the words on a postcard that my father sent me last year: "If you win the rat race, you're still a rat..

Barack Obama is the kind of guy who likes to do things by inches, he's the kind of guy who likes to build consensus and compromise..

Barack Obama presents as kind of a cool character, and I think that that's his natural personality..

This is why I had children: to offer them a perfect dream of childhood that can fill their souls as they grow older..

I'm a Catholic of the New Testament, I'm not a Catholic of the hierarchy..

London has the trick of making its past, its long indelible past, always a part of its present. And for that reason it will always have meaning for t….

The age of technology has both revived the use of writing and provided ever more reasons for its spiritual solace. Emails are letters, after all, mor….

I'm sure not afraid of success and I've learned not to be afraid of failure. The only thing I'm afraid of now is of being someone I don't like much..

Amid attempts to protect elephants from ivory poachers and dolphins from tuna nets, the rights of children go remarkably unremarked..