I'm not saying all publishers have to be literary, but some interest in books would help.

I think I became a Catholic to annoy my father.

I was once naïve enough to ask the late Duke of Devonshire why he liked the town of Eastbourne. He replied with a self-deprecating shrug that one of the things he liked was that he owned it.

I don't think you can tell the objective truth about a person. That's why people write novels.

Fear of death has never played a large part in my consciousness - perhaps unimaginative of me.

I might be deceiving myself but I do not think that I do have an inordinate fear of death.

The really clever people now want to be lawyers or journalists.