The sight of parents, children and grandparents all descending on a tented field to enjoy the pleasure of ideas and books renews my faith in humanity.

I hate the thought of my children being glued to a screen. Children only play on computers all day because their parents let them.

I have a very childish attitude to books - a very non-analytic enthusiasm... like Alice falling down the chute.

Placing 'amicable' and 'separation' together creates an oxymoron - we don't usually decide to end a partnership until the very sight of our soon-to-be ex fills us with disgust, misery, agony or a combination of all three.

How great it would be if parents and grandparents started children off with a nest egg.

In my late teens and early twenties, I thought having children was possibly the most irresponsible thing you could do because I thought that the world was a dreadful place; I thought the sooner we all got off the planet, the better.