This calls for a very special blend of psychology and extreme violence.

And roast beef and Yorkshire pudding is my personal signature dish.

Books are the key. A book cannot be accessed from afar. You have to hold it, you have to read it.

The earth only has so much bounty to offer and inventing ever larger and more notional prices for that bounty does not change its real value.

The Germans are a cruel race. Their operas last for six hours and they have no word for fluffy.

I resent the creation of a world in which beauty is a reminder of what we're losing rather than a celebration of what we have.

If I did things for the money, I'd have done adverts in the 1980s, when I was hot enough to be offered them, and 'Police Academy 6,' which I was asked to write.