The essence of a class system is not that the privileged are conscious of their privileges, but that the deprived are conscious of their deprivations.

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

It is a good rule in life to be wary of the company of people who think of themselves in the third person, no matter how well justified they might seem to be in doing so.

The British secret service was staffed at one point almost entirely by alcoholic homosexuals working for the KGB

An education without a Bible education is no education.

I think the great trick of doing my sort of thing is to learn to use your downtime, and of course in the media and especially in television, there's a heck of a lot of time of waiting around. And I think the trick is to use that.

One of the virtues of the NHS... it doesn't worry you about money at the moment when you're least capable of doing anything about it.