People should be stopped from writing poetry. There's far too much of it. And if they're any good, they'll go ahead anyways.

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.

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

In London there was no home cooking worthy of the name. When you were in funds you ate out. But only the people whose faces appeared in such publications as Town and Queen could afford to eat in restaurants serving food which would leave them looking and feeling better instead of worse.

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

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

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.