Bleak House is just the most astounding piece of work. There's huge, visionary poetry in it.

I don't practise any religion but I am deeply interested in the answers that mankind has come up with to explain the human situation.

I don't practise any religion but I am deeply interested in the answers that mankind has come up with to explain the human situation.

My mother wanted me to be a teacher. She had this vision of me walking across the quadrangle in an Oxford college wearing my academic gown.