I want my words to survive translation. I know when I write a book now I will have to go and spend three days being intensely interrogated by journalists in Denmark or wherever. That fact,...

Perhaps there are those who are able to go about their lives unfettered by such concerns. But for those like us, our fate is to face the world as orphans, chasing through long years the...

While it is important to have principles, you have far less control of what happens. These principles and positions only get you so far, because what actually happens is that you don’t carefully chart your...

Now when I look back to the Guildford of that time, it seems far more exotic to me than Nagasaki.