"I was in my late twenties when I told my mother. [...] I spoke to her about an affair with a woman and three days lat…"

"I now regret it because it caused the person I loved the most pain she could not bear. I should have been aware that …"

"[On mortality] If you are a Jew, and I am, it is not a subject that is ever far away. The Holocaust, in which I lost …"

"The umbilical cord was never completely cut, metaphorically speaking, so I still feel massively connected to them lon…"

"[On the TV series Miriam's Big Fat Adventure] I've always been fat and you're not supposed to be fat, so my built-in …"

"Nobody thinks they've had the career they deserve. And I want to be as important as Judi and Maggie and all the other…"

"The more I thought about it, the more obsessed I became with the idea of a swimming journey. I started to dream ever …"

"From water level, I observed the mating joined in flight like refuelling aircraft, and the random progress of the clo…"

"It is through trees that we see and hear the wind: woodland people can tell the species of a tree from the sound it m…"

"Waterlog (1999), Roger's now-classic account of swimming through Britain, published twenty years ago this year, opens…"