I have a lot of nice Italian winter clothes that make me look like a sophisticated Lebanese professor, so my friend Robert and I go around pretending to be experts in Arabic politics. It doesn't work in the summer though. I don't have the right clothes.

I don't think I'd ever get thin, but I don't see why I should necessarily think that I couldn't You can't live your life for your routines.

Everyone I used to work with is still alive and can afford expensive lawyers.

I feel sorry for many politicians we expect them to be completely consistent and moralised when we're not.

People are more violently opposed to fur than leather because it's safer to harass rich women than motorcycle gangs.

I've been going to Granada for many years and 12 years ago bought a house a few miles outside the city.

It always seemed to be a constant that my parents were political.