Among famous traitors of history one might mention the weather.

I would like a food/lifestyle show. We're not sure what that is yet. I want to be able to share what I do and how I raise my family. I feel like I have a story to tell. I enjoy talking and listening sharing ideas and sharing advice.

I'm just a public-schoolboy. I've got a degree. I'm from a middle-class family in Devon. I've got no story.

We need a better way to talk about eating animals a way that doesn't ignore or even just shruggingly accept things like habits cravings family and history but rather incorporates them into the conversation. The more they are allowed in the more able we will be to follow our best instincts.

For all of higher civilization's recorded history becoming a man was defined overwhelmingly as taking responsibility for a family.

As a novelist I mined my history my family and my memory but in a very specific way. Writing fiction I never made use of experiences immediately as they happened. I needed to let things fester in my memory mature and transmogrify into something meaningful.

It's not an accident that both my sister and I are writers. Our parents created an accidental Petri dish. My family has great storytellers and I grew up in a very funny conversational house and didn't have television. This small family farm was a bubble world that didn't have much to do with reality.

I am very lucky I have a very tight group of friends and a very supportive family and to this date no-one has ever sold a story on me.

My sense of the family history is somewhat sketchy because my mother kept a great deal to herself.

No doubt the White House thinks the American people know Obama's story. But since the Inauguration we've seen only the president's present: his perfect family his Ivy League elegance his effortless mastery of complex issues. We never see him sweat. And we forget that he ever had to struggle.

If you have autism in the family history you still vaccinate. Delay it a bit space them out.

In the richest country in the history of the world this Obama economy has crushed the middle class. Family income has fallen by $4 0 but health insurance premiums are higher food prices are higher utility bills are higher and gasoline prices have doubled. Today more Americans wake up in poverty than ever before.

It's very strange that most people don't care if their knowledge of their family history only goes back three generations.

I am struck by the fact that personal faith and political agendas are intertwined more closely now than at any other time in recent history.

Christianity emerged from the religion of Israel. Or rather it has as its background a persistent strain in that religion. To that strain Christians have looked back and rightly as the preparation in history for their faith.

Comics don't work if the story is all in the text and the images are illustrative. It's hard to have enough faith in the artists to allow them to do their job.

We're telling a story. And the demands of that are different from the demands of a documentary. The audience must believe in order to keep faith in the story.

Through history people look for something spiritual. The greatest scientists in the world were men of religion and faith too.

The unutterable violence of the Holocaust shook our confidence in the possibility of telling any story of faith at all.

Was the real Jesus of history one and the same as the Christ of faith whom we read about in the New Testament and worship in the church? Was Jesus really raised from the dead? Is he really the divine Lord of lords?

Faith is a kind of winged intellect. The great workmen of history have been men who believed like giants.

It's a leap of faith doing any serialised storytelling.

I have written too much history to have faith in it and if anyone thinks I'm wrong I am inclined to agree with him.

Religious belief like history itself is a story that is always unfolding always subject to inquiry and ripe for questioning. For without doubt there is no faith.