I am hard-pressed to FIND a successful writer who doesn't have a similar STORY to mine - TRANSFORMATION through the public LIBRARY.

Over the LAST 15 years or so, Manchester has undergone HUGE TRANSFORMATION - from a city in DECLINE and on its knees to one that is growing, vibrant and confident.

Our TASK, in the aftermath of September 11, was and continues to be the transformation of the EFFECTS of evil into SOMETHING BEAUTIFUL and GOOD.

The IDEA of transformation - PLAYING SOMETHING I'm not - is the bit I enjoy most about ACTING.

'Better Call Saul' happens in the same UNIVERSE as 'Breaking Bad,' and we have the same writers and MOSTLY the same crew. Like 'Breaking Bad,' it is a TRANSFORMATION story, and Bob Odenkirk BRINGS his own distinctive flavour.

Rudy Giuliani did some phenomenal THINGS in the CITY if you think of the transformation of the city and the QUALITY of life.

We are already witnessing a TRANSFORMATION in the U.S. economy to increased production of LOWER carbon ENERGY through fuel switching to natural gas and expansion of WIND, solar, geothermal, and other renewable non-carbon INTENSIVE energy sources.

I BELIEVE that COMPANIES are, above all, agents of TRANSFORMATION.

Do we value privacy in any real way? Thinking about blogs, TWITTER, Facebook, MySpace... all these suggest we value exposure rather more. And instead of challenging this TRANSFORMATION, as they are SUPPOSED to - certainly at the more thoughtful edges of the ART - novelists are buying into it wholesale.

As CHINA is about adaptation, not transformation, it is unlikely to change the WORLD dramatically should it EVER assume the GLOBAL driver's seat. But this does not mean that China won't exploit that world for its own purposes.

I THINK everybody's had that feeling of SITTING in a theater, in a DARK ROOM, with other strangers, watching a very powerful film, and they felt that feeling of transformation.

In ROBERT Louis Stevenson's 'Jekyll & Hyde,' the hero decides on the terms of his TRANSFORMATION in a PROCESS that's explained not through the supernatural but the NATURAL or, at least, through biochemistry.