I always wanted to play a Greek god in something.
Switzerland still has a huge share of the watch market, all advertised at the airport on illuminated hoardings. Gosh, they are ugly.
I cannot be alone in being pretty nauseated by Red Nose Day, or at least its television manifestation. Do I think that wretchedly poor children in Africa should get food and life-saving drugs? Of course. Do I want to be hectored into contributing by celebrities who earn more in a 10-minute slot than many of these families get in a year? Nope.
I think the great thing about grandparents is seeing another home, realising that people you love can have different priorities, different diversions, different opinions and lead quite different lives from the ones you see every day, and that is immensely valuable.
When you visit a foreign city you are in it, but not of it, separated by a glass wall. Once, while a student, I was getting dressed in my ground-floor room when a family of Italians crossed the grass to watch, as if I were laid on for their amusement and instruction.
If you read the 'Daily Mail,' you would imagine that the British middle classes lead lives of unremitting misery.
Most successful American politicians look well-fed on endorsements, campaign contributions and chicken dinners.
We do not make or create our souls, we just grow them up.
You can pretend anything and master it.
If you like what you're reading, I probably wrote it.
Each of us is a moving center, a space of divine mystery