Mocking Hugh Hefner is easy to do, and in my mind should be made easier.

Stop worrying, nobody gets out of this world alive.

Television is simultaneously blamed, often by the same people, for worsening the world and for being powerless to change it.

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.

Anyone afraid of what he thinks television does to the world is probably just afraid of the world.

The Benson and Hedges Cup was won by McEnroe ... he was as charming as always, which means that he was as charming as a dead mouse in a loaf of bread.

In between the Queen and the First Lady, Nancy Reagan, sat Tony Richardson, looking very calm. Later on it emerged that this was because, having not been apprised of the placement until he was about to sit down, he had died of fright. To have expired was to be fortunate.