“I've always felt, with 'The Iliad,' a real frustration that it's read ...” — Alice Oswald Quote

“I've always felt, with 'The Iliad,' a real frustration that it's read wrong. That it's turned into this public school poem, which I don't think it is. That glamorising of war, and white-limbed, flowing-haired Greek heroes - it's become a cliched, British empire part of our culture.”

“It's the stickiness of earth that makes it problematic - the way it stains your straps and ingrains your hands so you can't quite tell where you start and stop.”

“Spring, when the earth tilts closer to the sun, runs a strict timetable of flowers.”

“Sir Richard Attenborough was a wonderful human being and an amazing actor and director. He was a British who really loved India, its people, the culture and the conscience. He lived a great life.”

“I lived in London for eight years and I like to say that I am two parts American and one part British because I lived there for a third of my life.”

“Many people say that we have sufficient laws in our country, just that they are not implemented properly. I completely disagree with them. I have studied many of the laws very carefully. We are still being governed by the same colonial laws which existed in British times. They have not been changed. Many of these laws need to be changed.”