Anyone afraid of what he thinks television does to the world is probably just afraid of the world.

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.

I was wrong, however, to suppose that Sellers thought the world revolved around him. He thought the cosmos did too, and history, and the fates... Like every egomaniac, he behaved as if everybody else spent their day being as interested in him as he was.

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

Sick of being a prisoner of my childhood, I want to put it behind me.

John McEnroe looks as if he is serving round the edge of an imaginary building.

How much atonement is enough? The bombing must be allowed as at least part-payment: those of our young people who are concerned about the moral problem posed by the Allied air offensive should at least consider the moral problem that would have been posed if the German civilian population had not suffered at all.