I've been bitten by a python. Not a very big one. I was being silly, saying: 'Oh, it's not poisonous...' Then, wallop! But you have fear around animals.

I am not over fond of animals.

People knew that animals were nocturnal but they didn't really know what they did because they couldn't see it.

I like animals. I like natural history. The travel bit is not the important bit. The travel bit is what you have to do in order to go and look at animals.

Oh, humiliation is poisonous. It's one of the deepest pains of being human.

Nature isn't positive in that way. It doesn't aim itself at you. It's not being unkind to you.