"I would love to travel around the world working for a travel company taking students abroad on cultural immersion trips."

"Now I'll read anytime, anywhere. I love reading in front of the space heater. Isn't that a sad confession? But it's like my substitute for the roaring fireplace of yore."

"I think that different pleasures work for different readers - a friend of mine won't read anything that's not a cardiovascular sort of page-turner. I tend to care less about plot, but I'm a sucker for humor and strangeness."

"The relationship between an actor and a director is like a love story between a man and a woman. I'm sure sometimes I'm the woman."

"Behind every small business, there's a story worth knowing. All the corner shops in our towns and cities, the restaurants, cleaners, gyms, hair salons, hardware stores - these didn't come out of nowhere."

"If you take different mythologies from different cultures, the names may change and the story lines may vary but there is always something in common."

"Knowledge is a polite word for dead but not buried imagination."