Without a trace of irony I can say I have been blessed with brilliant enemies. I owe them a great debt, because they redoubled my energies and drove me in new directions.

Without a trace of irony I can say I have been blessed with brilliant enemies . . . I owe them a great debt, because they redoubled my energies and drove me in new directions.

I love' Les Mis,' and I owe it a lot, because I wouldn't have been born without it.

I had reached a point in my career in which I was ready to try something new in my writing, and the idea of a novel has always been in the back of my mind.

It's always been a great survival value for people to believe they belong to a superior tribe. That's just in human relationships.

It's like having astronomy without knowing where the stars are.