The first language that I learned was Italian in Italy in the early and middle-'60s and I had to do that to keep up with the young men who were courting my wife.

In Italy, for the same price as a typical British hamburger meal including sweet, a builder's labourer could eat like a king - rather better in fact, because pasta dishes gain from being kept simple.

Sick of being a prisoner of my childhood, I want to put it behind me.

Like a Volvo, Bjorn Borg is rugged, has good after-sales service, and is very dull.

Whoever called snooker "chess with balls" was rude, but right.

A sceptic finds Dallas absurd. A cynic thinks the public doesn't

Murray sounds like a blindfolded man riding a unicycle on the rim of the pit of doom, the men actually facing the danger are all so taciturn that you might as well try interviewing the cars themselves.