I love reading about the sea. I love reading about it a lot more than actually being on the sea, when you think about it.

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.

My niece is - her name is Sasha, is currently learning Russian at Melbourne University and I look forward to the day when I can talk to her about Pushkin.

I've got life for a subject because as life starts to drain away, you start seeing very clearly what life is, for the first time.

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.

Men never sound more stupid than when they're telling you they're a very complex personality.

A sceptic finds Dallas absurd. A cynic thinks the public doesn't