“I'm not a prophet; I can only use historical reality to come to a view of the future, and my view is that Africa will return to be...”

“I'm not a good father and they're not children any more; the eldest is in his fifties. My relationship with their mothers broke do...”

“My mother-in-law speaks not a word of English. I speak not a word of Tajiki. So I smile at her ingratiatingly and she fixes me wit...”

“At the age of 12 I won the school prize for Best English Essay. The prize was a copy of Somerset Maugham's 'Introduction To Modern...”

“If I have to die, then it's best to do so before I see everything I love, the land, the animals, the people, all of it destroyed.”

“Patriotism is a myth conceived by those old rogues to draw us into the infernal game. Let them fight as they will, but we want no...”

“The people of the future will say, meat-eaters in disgust and regard us in the same way that we regard cannibals and cannibalism.”

“I feel often that we don't have the right language to talk about emotions in disasters. Everyone is on edge, of course, but it als...”

“Stephen King in many respects is a wonderful writer. He has made a contribution. People in the future will be able to pick up Step...”

“There are no limits to our future if we don't put limits on our people.”

“A globalized world is by now a familiar fact of life. Building walls or moats may sound appealing, but the future belongs to those...”

“Whatever help we may want from the international community now or in the future, we want to make sure that this help is tailored t...”