Issue 104

Olga Grushin

‘Things that aren’t done right away are never done.’

Peregrine Hodson

‘The thought of selling the shares seems disrespectful, like burning the letters of the dead. However, the market has been softening over the last two months and people are beginning to say that the bull market is over.’

Issue 57

Trevor Fishlock

‘His room is as he left it, furnished with a carpet, a spinning wheel, a low white table, a mattress and cushion.’

Issue 18

David Hare

‘Of all art forms the theatre is most susceptible to fashion.’

Janine di Giovanni

I always begin bedtime stories to my son the same way: ‘Once upon a time, a long, long time ago . . .’

Issue 61

Stephen Gill

'In December 1964, the Cunard Line placed its order for the ship that turned out to be the last great transatlantic liner'.

Issue 115

Janice Galloway

‘Abstain was the only advice we were getting.’

Issue 94

James Hamilton-Paterson

‘The more we flock to view the disappearing glaciers, the faster they will vanish.’

Issue 30

Michael Ignatieff

‘Turia’s room is at the end of an aquamarine-tiled corridor in a mansion in Holland Park, built for a department-store millionaire before the First War and now used as a halfway house for mental patients.’

Issue 101

Andrew Hussey

‘In the nineteenth century, Charles Baudelaire wrote of Paris being haunted by its past, by ‘ghosts in daylight.’

James Holland

‘As I discovered, many Afghans still believe that the Taliban offers security.’

Issue 55

Allan Gurganus

‘In Falls, North Carolina, in 1957, we had just one way of “coming out”. It was called getting caught.’

Issue 77

Ian Jack

William Fiennes

‘We talked a lot about voice – the idea that everyone has a voice, their own voice, and this is something to be valued and celebrated.’