Cancer, like any other illness, is a bore.

I think the writer's quite low down in the hierarchy really. But the fact that they took the piss out of Nicholas [Hynter] who, besides being the director, is also director of the National Theatre is, I'd have thought, slightly more risky.

Why is it always the "intelligent" people who are socialists?

I suppose I'm the only person who remembers one of the most exciting of his ballets-it's the fruit of an unlikely collaboration between Nijinsky on the one hand and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle on the other.

What she was finding also was how one book led to another, doors kept opening wherever she turned and the days weren't long enough for the reading she wanted to do.

History is a commentary on the various and continuing incapabilities of men. What is history? History is women following behind with the bucket.

God doesn't do notes, either. Did Jesus Christ say, "Can I be excused the Crucifixion?" No!