I want to write more books, see my first novel made into a film, fight more campaigns, work in more countries. I want to be able to recall experiences that have endured for their pleasure and range and intensity.

The media are obsessed with spin doctors and with portraying them as a bad thing, yet seem addicted to our medicine.

I will continue to help the political causes I believe in in any way I can.

We should confine booing in sports arenas to sport. I love a good boo as much as the next football fan.

In an ideal world, it would not take a film star to get the media focused on mental illness.

Failure, it is thought, is what sells, and what people want to hear and read about. I am not so sure.

There are many reasons for the decline in royal esteem. One is that so many of the royals are thick.