I studied law at Warwick University, then philosophy at Oxford. I met my wife Leah there. She is American, so I followed her to New York.

I did a law degree but was miserable the whole time. I was supposed to join a law firm in London but instead went to Oxford to do a master's in philosophy.

People in the North are really taciturn and reticent, and they don't really like to talk about the past.

Sometimes the fantasy writers set their novels in an ancient Earth, sometimes a parallel Earth, or, quite often, they offered no explanation at all as to the temporal and geographic location.

I've always deplored bad heterosexual values that dictate the minute a marriage is over the former partners no longer speak to each other; only straights could be so cruel and inhuman as to reject totally the person with whom they've shared their life for 20 or 30 years.

Marriage, or any committed partnership, has become sacred to me, powerful and fragile all at the same time.

I feel things are changing now. Actresses are working at same pace even after getting married or having kids.

Passion is universal humanity. Without it religion, history, romance and art would be useless.