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.

All intellectual tendencies are corrupted when they consort with power.

Reading and writing... are exciting. The most exciting things I can think of. And now, as I reflect... I have to say that I've been lucky in that I'm amused by what I do - sufficiently amused.

The thing about making a documentary in Las Vegas is there isn't much to film apart from other people making documentaries about Las Vegas.

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

She was good at playing abstract confusion in the same way that a midget is good at being short.

It's my mission to tell the Australians from abroad in my work that Australia is a wonderful place.