Israel is the Jimmy Saville of nation states.
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.
Most of the Communists I knew were nice people.
It seems easier to make a career out of comedy now than it was in the 1980s.
Most of my friends are women - I quite fancied being a woman in a way.
For me, the showbiz memoir is uninteresting - you want to tell people something they don't know about.