Humphrey Searle writes music that sounds like the theme from 'Star Wars' played backwards through a washing machine.

Even in moments of tranquility, Murray Walker sounds like a man whose trousers are on fire.

If we want a book to do more than what it does, that's a condemnation. If we want it to do more of what it does, that's an endorsement.

Writing is a performance art for me. They're very closely aligned, writing and performing. But I'm a writer, not a performer.

In The Bob Hope Golf Classic (LWT) the participation of President Gerald Ford was more than enough to remind you that the nuclear button was at one stage at the disposal of a man who might have either pressed it by mistake or else pressed it deliberately in order to obtain room service.

The smartest move I ever made in showbusiness was to start off looking like the kind of wreck I would end up as. I was already aged in the wood.

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