I went to Cambridge and thought I would stay there. I thought I would quietly grow tweed in a corner somewhere and become a Don or something.

My wish is to stay always like this, living quietly in a corner of nature.

It is exhausting knowing that most of the time the phone rings, most of the time there's an email, most of the time there's a letter, someone wants something of you.

I want to look at life - at the commonplaces of existence - as if we had just turned a corner and run into it for the first time

They are just 100 per cent bear, whereas human beings feel we're not 100 per cent human, that we're always letting ourselves down. We're constantly striving towards something, to some fulfilment.

Cambridge is one of the best universities in the world, especially in my field.