I wanted passionately to be a priest.

I wanted to be a priest when I was a kid.

Brain power improves by brain use, just as our bodily strength grows with exercise. And there is no doubt that a large proportion of the female population, from school days to late middle age, now have very complicated lives indeed.

It is remarkable how easily children and grown-ups adapt to living in a dictatorship organised by lunatics.

I don't think you can tell the objective truth about a person. That's why people write novels.

Reading about Queen Victoria has been a passion of mine since, as a child, I came across Laurence Housman's play 'Happy and Glorious,' with its Ernest Shepard illustrations.