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.
I believe the collapse of the House of Windsor is tied in with the collapse of the Church of England.
Fear of death has never played a large part in my consciousness - perhaps unimaginative of me.
Tennyson seems to be the patron saint of the wishy washies, which is perhaps why I admire him so much, not only as a poet, but as a man.
I don't think you can tell the objective truth about a person. That's why people write novels.
If you read about Mussolini or Stalin or some of these other great monsters of history, they were at it all the time, that they were getting up in the morning very early. They were physically very active. They didn't eat lunch.
