I couldn't really see the point of having lunch unless it started at 1:00 and ended a week later in Monte Carlo.

I find it hilarious that there are academics who try to analyse chemical changes in the brains of students while exposing them to gags.

Reading the play at home, however fulfilling, can never be the vivacious experience that Shakespeare intended.

An uninspiring canvas becomes a glamorous masterpiece when it is reattributed to a better-known artist.

I'm an armchair kind of guy, especially when it's raining, which it always is and always will be.

The real change that paintings undergo is in the perceptions of the viewer.

Don Quixote's 'Delusions' is an excellent read - far better than my own forthcoming travel book, 'Walking Backwards Across Tuscany.'