The truth and the facts aren't necessarily the same thing. Telling the truth is the object of all art; facts are what the unimaginative have instead of ideas.

You either get the point of Africa or you don't. What draws me back year after year is that it's like seeing the world with the lid off.

Television gives us the gift to see ourselves as we'd like to be seen.

If the world were to end tomorrow and we could choose to save only one thing as the explanation and memorial to who we were, then we couldn't do better than the Natural History Museum, although it wouldn't contain a single human. The systematic Linnean order, the vast inquisitiveness and range of collated knowledge and beauty would tell all that is the best of us.

He (Jeremy Clarkson) is the last man standing on the beach commanding the glaciers' melt waters to go back

Celebrity is a national drama whose characters' parts and plots are written by the tabloids, gossip columnists, websites and interactive buttons. The famous don't actually have to turn up to their own lives at all.

The reason that chefs become chefs is that they're not allowed into rooms with windows.