You can cry about death and very properly so, your own as well as anybody else's. But it's inevitable, so you'd better grapple with it and cope and be aware that not only is it inevitable, but it has always been inevitable, if you see what I mean.

I think a major element of jetlag is psychological. Nobody ever tells me what time it is at home.

You'll discover in countries where women have control over their own bodies, where they have education, where they have birth control, where they have facilities and where they are literate, when those things happen, the birth rate falls.

I don't run a car, have never run a car. I could say that this is because I have this extremely tender environmentalist conscience, but the fact is I hate driving.

I'm not over-fond of animals. I am merely astounded by them.

Do we really require so many gardening programmes, makeover programmes or celebrity chefs?

If I can bicycle, I bicycle.