I suspect that happiness is not a state but rather a transition.

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

I suspect that happiness is not a state but rather a transition.

Well, I'm having a good time. Which makes me feel guilty too. How very English.

You know, it is a terrible thing to appear on television, because people think that you actually know what you're talking about.

Climate change will affect the whole of humanity, while terrorist attacks will only affect a small section of humanity. Of course, you wouldn't say that if you were related to someone who had been beheaded or blown up or murdered. But humanity is facing a very big, slow, long, drawn-out threat, and that is to do with the way the weather is changing and the size of the population.

I mean, it is an extraordinary thing that a large proportion of your country and my country, of the citizens, never see a wild creature from dawn 'til dusk, unless it's a pigeon, which isn't really wild, which might come and settle near them.