The Border Ballads, for instance, and the Robin Hood Ballads, clearly suppose a state of society which is nothing but a very circumscribed and not very important heroic age.

By the age of 9 or 10, I knew that I had to cut my own cloth and make my own way.

When you're my age and you see a story, you better go for it pretty quickly. I'd just like to get a few more novels under my belt.

Catholics and evangelicals need to remain allied, and in solidarity, against the increasingly aggressive secularism of our age.

I don't know whether it's age or maturity, but I certainly find myself committed more and more to the looser forms of Western democracy at any price.