A traditional fixture at Wimbledon is the way the BBC TV commentary box fills up with British players eliminated in the early rounds.

Experts say men think of sex every 10 seconds... What do they think of in the other nine?

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.

Young men especially - I don't know if young women feel much the same - but young men think they are immortal, automatically. They have no idea of time because they have so much energy and I was like 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.

I won't have to miss smoking any more. Nobody smokes where I'm going: It's like a row of restaurants in California.

I was brought up on the proletarian left, and I remain there. The fair go for workers is fundamental, and I don't believe the free market has a mind.