I tell you one thing that makes me feel I haven't wasted my life, and that is I've got some grandchildren. You can't overestimate the kind of opening to the future that gives a person, I think.

I feel as though my life is bathed in golden sunlight. And the really wonderful thing is that I know it.

The one thing I really lucked out on is that all through my teenage years, when my sister was a lifeguard and everyone I knew was out in the sun all day - I was in the theater. Everyone called me Casper because I never had a tan, and everyone else was tan all the time. I think that was the luckiest thing of my life.

That's the best thing that's ever happened to me, bar none, is having grandchildren and living by them and being part of their lives.

I think some people wished I'd kept myself out of the book. But I kind of insist on it because I want the reader to share my engagement with the material, if you like, not pretend that I'm doing it completely intellectually.

I think one thing is that prayer has become more useful, interesting, fruitful, and... almost involuntary in my life.